Roscoe Conkling

“Some members of this party are hogs. They want everything. They can't get it.”

“I do not know how to belong to a party a little.”

“When I am confronted with a heresy, I find it much safer to crush it in the egg than to wait for it to be hatched.”

“He is a man of that sublime type that is never reached but once in a century.”

“The first thing a man has to do is to be a man. After that he can be a states-man, or a shoe-man, or what-not.”

“Nothing is more laudable than the pleading of a just cause; nothing more detestable than the patrocinating of an unjust one.”

“I am for spoils, in the sense of a reward for political warfare.”

“The press, the pulpit, and the platform are our chief reliance for the diffusion of intelligence, piety, and patriotism.”

“I have no commission to bind any man to my opinions.”