If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries for dinner.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.