“The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.”
Epigram, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
John James Ingalls az Amerikai Egyesült Államok szenátora .
“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.