John James Ingalls Quotes

#1. Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.

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#2. Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

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#3. The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

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#4. Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

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#5. I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.

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#6. Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".

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#7. I answer not, and I return no more.

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#8. The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

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#9. Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

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#10. In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

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