John Peter Altgeld Quotes
Remember this about any slander. Denial only emphasizes, and gives added importance to falsehood. Let it alone and it will die for want of nourishment.
John Peter Altgeld, 1847-1902, Illinois Governor (Democrat), Judge of the Illinois Supreme Court, Remark to a friend, Quoted in Wallechinsky and Wallace, The Peoples' Almanac
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The papyrus appears to be an instruction booklet for government officials. The Egyptians had no concept of the function of the brain and believed emotion emanated from the belly. The term “hot-bellied” would translate to “hot-headed.”
Calumnaire fortiter, et aliquid adhaerebit. See Pierre Beaumarchais for a later version of this political tactic.
Comey was objecting to the firing of several Assistant Attorneys General whom he thought were victims of parisanship.
John Peter Altgeld was an American politician and the 20th Governor of Illinois, serving from 1893 until 1897. He was the first Democrat to govern that state since the 1850s. A leading figure of the Progressive movement, Altgeld signed workplace safety and child labor laws, pardoned three of the men convicted in the Haymarket Affair, and rejected calls in 1894 to break up the Pullman strike by force. In 1896 he was a leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, opposing President Grover Cleveland and the conservative Bourbon Democrats. He was defeated for reelection in 1896 in an intensely fought, bitter campaign.
