Best 3 quotes of Joseph Gurney Cannon on MyQuotes

In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.

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.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.