POLITICS POPPY
Abstain from beans.
I will drive a coach and six through the Act of
Settlement.
Stephen Rice—Quoted by Macaulay—
History of England. Ch. XII. Familiarly
known as "Drive a coach and six through an
Act of Parliament."
There is a homely old adage which runs:
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go
far." If the American nation will speak softly
and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest
training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe
Doctrine will go far.
Roosevelt. Address at Minnesota State Fair,
Sept. 2, 1901.
The first advice I have to give the party is that it should clean its slate.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Hamlet. Act I. Sc.4. L. 90.
Get thee glass eyes ;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not. King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 6. L. 174. </poem>
O, that estates, degrees, and offices
Were not deriv'd corruptly, and that clear
honour
Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!
Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 9. L. 41.
| author =
| work =
| place =
| note =
| topic =
| page = 613
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 5
| text = Persuade me not; I will make a Star-chamber
matter of it.
Merry Wives of Windsor. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 1.
When I first came into Parliament, Mr.
Tierney, a great Whig authority, used always
to say that the duty of an Opposition was
very simple—it was to oppose everything and
propose nothing.
Lord Stanley—Debate, June 4, 1841. See
Hansard's Parliamentary Debates.
| seealso = (See also Churchill)
| topic =
| page = 613
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?
Thackeray—Adventures of Philip
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Disraeli)
As long as I count the votes what are you
going to do about it? Say.
Wm. M. Tweed—The Ballot in 1871.
Defence, not defiance.
Motto adopted by the "Volunteers," when
there was fear of an invasion of England by
Napoleon. (1859)
| topic =
| page = 613
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>The king [Frederick] has sent me some of
his dirty linen to wash; I will wash yours
another time.
Voltaire—Reply to General Manstein. CXI.
| seealso = (See also Napoleon)
| topic =
| page = 613
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>The gratitude of place expectants is a lively
sense of future favours.
Ascribed to Walpole by Hazlitt—Wit and
Humour. Same in La Rqchfoucauld—
Maxims.
I am not a politician, and my other habits air
good.
Artemus Ward—Fourth of July Oration.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than
the science of the ordered progress of society
along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Woodrow Wilson. To the Pan-American
Scientific Congress. Washington, Jan. 6,
1916.
Tippecanoe and Tyler too.
Political slogan, attributed to Orson E.
Woodbury. (1840)
POLLUTION (See Corruption)
POPPY
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed!
The flower of Mercy! that within its heart
Doth keep "a drop serene" for human need,
A drowsy balm for every bitter smart.
For happy hours the Rose will idly blow—
The Poppy hath a charm for pain and woe.
Mary A. Barr—White Poppies.
Central depth of purple,
Leaves more bright than rose,
Who shall tell what brightest thought
Out of darkness grows?
Who, through what funereal pain,
Souls to love and peace attain?
Leigh Hunt—Songs and Chorus of the Flowers. Poppies.
We are slumberous poppies,
Lords of Lethe downs,
Some awake and some asleep,
Sleeping in our crowns.
What perchance our dreams may know,
Let our serious beauty show.
Leigh Hunt—Songs and Chorus of the Flowers. Poppies.
