John Sharp Williams

“I would rather have a government of Bolsheviks, than a government of blockheads.”

“I'd rather be a hound dog and bay at the moon from my Mississippi plantation than be a dictator of the world.”

“The tariff is a local issue.”

“The world has become a whispering-gallery.”

“The right of revolution is the right to fight an unjust and tyrannical government.”

“I am a Democrat because I am a white man and a Southerner.”

“It is an unwritten law of the Democratic party that it is never to be surprised at anything that happens in American politics.”

“Every man who has ever been President of the United States has been a conscientiously and patriotically honest man.”