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George Washington Plunkitt was an American politician from New York State. He served in both houses of the New York State Legislature and was a member of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City. Wikipedia  

✵ 1842 – 1924
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“As a matter of policy, if nothing else, why should the Tammany leaders go into such dirty business, when there is so much honest graft lyin’ around when they are in power? p. 6”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 1, Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft

“I think every man would be better off if he didn’t take any intoxicatin’ drink at all, but as men will drink, they ought to have good stuff without impoverishin’ themselves by goin’ to fancy places and without riskin’ death by goin’ to poor places. p. 86”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 21, Concerning Excise

“There’s always a certain number of suckers and a certain number of men lookin’ for a chance to take them in, and the suckers are sure to be took one way or another. It’s the everlastin’ law of demand and supply. p. 60”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 14 Tammany the Only Lastin’ Democracy

“How nice it is for the people to feel that they can get up in the mornin’ without bein’ afraid of seein’ in the papers that the Commissioner of Water Supply has sandbagged the Dock Commissioner, and that the Mayor and heads of the departments have been taken to the police court as witnesses! p. 82”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 20, Bosses Preserve the Nation

“If I have a good thing to hand out in private life, I give it to a friend. Why shouldn’t I do the same in public life? p.6”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 1, Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft

“Most of the leaders are plain American citizens, of the people and near to the people, and they have all the education they need to whip the dudes who part their name in the middle and to run the City Government. p. 45”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 11, Tammany Leaders Not Bookworms

“Say, ain’t some of the papers awful gullible about politics? p. 59”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 14 Tammany the Only Lastin’ Democracy

“I know that the civil service humbug is stuck into the constitution, too, but, as Tim Campbell said: “What’s the constitution among friends?””

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Origine: Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 3, The Curse of Civil Service Reform, p. 13

“Another kind of honest graft. Tammany has raised a good many salaries. There was an awful howl by the reformers, but don’t you know that Tammany gains ten votes for every one it lost by salary raisin’? p. 6”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 1, Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft

“You can’t be patriotic on a salary that just keeps the wolf from the door. p. 56”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 13, On Municipal Ownership

“Of course, the day may come when we’ll reject the money of the rich as tainted, but it hadn’t come when I left Tammany Hall at 11:25 A. M. today. p. 73”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 18, On the Use of Money in Politics

“The men who rule have practiced keepin’ their tongues still, not exercisin’ them. p. 8”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 2, How to Become a Statesman

“There’s an honest graft, and I’m an example of how it works. I might sum up the whole thing by sayin’: “I seen my opportunities and I took ’em.””

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Origine: Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 1, Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft, p. 3

“The railroad is a great public institution, and I was never an enemy of public institutions. p. 63”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 15. Concerning Gas in Politics

“The boys and men don’t get excited any more when they see a United States flag or hear “The Star-Spangled Banner.” They don’t care no more for firecrackers on the Fourth of July. And why should they? What is there in it for them?”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 3, The Curse of Civil Service Reform

“Every good man looks after his friends, and any man who doesn’t isn’t likely to be popular. p. 5”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 1, Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft

“What did the people mean when they voted for Tammany? What is representative government, anyhow? Is it all a fake that this is a government of the people, by the people and for the people? If it isn't a fake, then why isn't the people's voice obeyed and Tammany men put in all the offices? p. 12”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 3, The Curse of Civil Service Reform

“The hayseeds think we are like the Indians to the National Government—that is, sort of wards of the State, who don’t know how to look after ourselves and have to be taken care of by the Republicans of St. Lawrence, Ontario, and other backwoods counties. p. 21”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 5, New York City Is Pie for the Hayseeds

“The name-parted-in-the-middle aristocrats act in just the same way. They don’t want to be annoyed with firecrackers and the Declaration of Independence, and when they see the Fourth comin’ they hustle off to the woods like my dog. p. 71”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 17, Tammany’s Patriotism

“The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With the grand opportunities all around for the man with a political pull, there’s no excuse for stealin’ a cent. p. 32”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 7, On The Shame of the Cities

“He eats corned beef and kosher meat with equal nonchalance, and it’s all the same to him whether he takes off his hat in the church or pulls it down over his ears in the synagogue. p. 48”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 11, Tammany Leaders Not Bookworms

“Men ain’t in politics for nothin’. They want to get somethin’ out of it. p. 37”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 9, Reciprocity in Patronage

“The Democratic party of the nation ain’t dead, though it’s been givin’ a lifelike imitation of a corpse for several years. p. 88”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 22, A Parting Word on the Future of the Democratic Party in America

“This civil service law is the biggest fraud of the age. It is the curse of the nation. p. 11”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 3, The Curse of Civil Service Reform

“I've been studyin’ the political game for forty-five years, and I don’t know it all yet. I’m learnin’ somethin’ all the time. How, then, can you expect what they call “business men” to turn into politics all at once and make a success of it? p. 19”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 4, Reformers Only Mornin’ Glories

“The Raines liquor law is infamous. It takes away nearly all the profits of the saloonkeepers, and then turns in a large part of the money to the State treasury to relieve the hayseeds from taxes. p. 84”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 21, Concerning Excise

“They learned how to put up a pretty good bluff—and bluff counts a lot in politics. p. 18”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 4, Reformers Only Mornin’ Glories

“The man is picked out and somehow he gets to understand what’s expected of him in the way of a contribution, and he ponies up—all from gratitude to the organization that honored him, see? p. 74”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 18, On the Use of Money in Politics

“Isn’t it enough to make a man sour on his country when he wants to serve it and won’t be allowed unless he answers a lot of fool questions about the number of cubic inches of water in the Atlantic and the quality of sand in the Sahara desert? p. 11”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 3, The Curse of Civil Service Reform

“Say, I don’t wish I was a poet, for if I was, I guess I’d be livin’ in a garret on no dollars a week instead of runnin’ a great contractin’ and transportation business which is doin’ pretty well, thank you; but, honest, now, the notion takes me sometimes to yell poetry of the red-hot-hail-glorious-land kind when I think of New York City as a state by itself. p. 67”

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 16, Plunkitt’s Fondest Dream

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