Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise. Joseph Gurney Cannon More Quotes by Joseph Gurney Cannon More Quotes From Joseph Gurney Cannon I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows. Joseph Gurney Cannon sacrifice self men In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines. Joseph Gurney Cannon swapping legislation lines A majority can do anything. Joseph Gurney Cannon majority can-do
