Thomas R. Marshall

“It is a good deal like a man in a cataleptic fit. He is conscious of all that goes on, but he has no part in it.”

“Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was ever heard of either of them again.”

“I have no fears of my own, but I have a great many for my country.”

“What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar.”

“Indiana is the mother of Vice Presidents; home of more second-class men than any other state.”

“The Vice-President of the United States is a man in a cataleptic state; he cannot speak; he cannot move... he is a man who is waiting for a funeral that he hopes never will take place.”

“I don't want to work... I'd rather be Vice-President.”

“The right to get a living is as sacred as the right to live.”