“Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Center, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission.”
Editorial in New York Tribune (Feb. 16, 1877).
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“Partisanship may be King in Washington – but the rest of us don’t have to pay tribute.”
http://mikebloomberg.com/en/issues/public_health/mayor_bloomberg_delivers_opening_address_at_ceasefire_bridging_the_political_divide_conference
Partisanship
“Listen John—’
‘Who’s John?’
‘You’re John.’
‘I’m John?’
‘Yeah, I changed your name.”
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (2000)
“I have final say on the plot and characters, she has final say on the words and descriptions.”
Brief Biography http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1946/Macdonald-James-D-1954.html – JRank Articles
“Plots, true or false, are necessary things,
To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”
Pt. I line 83-84.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“The moon is a silver pin-head vast,
That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.”
"The Use of the Moon", p. 178.
Poetry of the Orient, 1865 edition
“A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.”
1333: A little Madness in the Spring
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
a fake quote debunked on several websites, including metabunk.org https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-theres-a-plot-in-this-country-to-enslave-every-man-woman-and-child-jfk.t319/
Misattributed
“As the birds do love the spring,
Or the bees their careful king”
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