Chauncey Depew Quotes
There are at least eighty liars in the convention.
In the 1912 Republican convention both the Taft and the Roosevelt camps claimed a majority of forty delegates. A reporter asked Depew what he thought of the situation.
Chauncey Depew, 1834-1928, Secretary of State of New York, U. S. Senator (Republican, NY), Remark to reporters, Republican National Convention, Chicago, IL, June 18, 1912
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Describing Martin Luther King Jr.:
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
After the Constitution had been ratified, there was a concerted attempt on the part of the Southern Slave States to minimize the importance of the Declaration of Independence. They feared that the equality principle in the Declaration should be seen by Americans as desirable policy which clearly meant slavery was untenable. There were three approaches all used by the Southerners. First, they tried to make it clear that the Declaration had no weight in American law or moral principles as it was superseded by the Constitution. Second, they claimed that it could only have applied to white men as Black males were not really men. Third, that the statement was patently false. This quotation illustrates the latter.
See Ben Franklin for an earlier similar sentiment {465143}.
Chauncey Mitchell Depew was an American attorney, businessman, and Republican politician. He is best remembered for his two terms as United States Senator from New York and for his work for Cornelius Vanderbilt, as an attorney and as president of the New York Central Railroad System.
