“The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.”
Epigram, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
John James Ingalls was an American Republican politician who served as a United States senator from Kansas. Ingalls is credited with suggesting the state motto and designing the state seal. Wikipedia
“The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.”
Epigram, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Translated: "to the stars through difficulties."”
State motto of Kansas, reported to have been devised by Ingalls.
Attributed
“Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.”
Eulogy on Benjamin Hill, United States Senate, Jan. 23, 1882.