"I'm not a politician and my other habits are good. I've no enemys to reward, nor friends to sponge. But I'm a Union man."
— Politicians

January 1, 1970

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Artemus Ward, Fourth of July oration delivered at Weathersfield, Connecticut (July 4, 1859); in The Complete Works of Artemus Ward (1898), p. 175–76. According to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 15th ed. (1980), p. 616, footnote 2, the first sentence was a favorite quotation of John F. Kennedy's.