Herman P. Eberharter Quotes
I do not object to butchering quite so much if everybody gets a fair share of the hog. But when a favored few get all the ham and pork chops, and the rest of the people get just plain old sow belly, at least the people are entitled to know what they are swallowing.
Referring to the fate of his bill in a House-Senate conference committee:
Herman P. Eberharter, 1892-1958, U. S. Congressman (Democrat, PA), Congressional Record, October 16, 1951
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Alluding to Congress's common practice of exempting itself and its members from many laws they impose on everyone else:
60 years later George Orwell would use the last line in his famous Animal Farm --- See {625338} .
Herman Peter Eberharter was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.