Don Marquis Quotes
There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.
Marquis, Don. The Almost Perfect State. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927.
Played the President in the NBC Network West Wing
He was then the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Churchill's first government job was as Undersecretary of the Colonies. Shortly after his appointment he observed:
He had asked Acheson to be Secretary of State and Acheson told the President that he did not feel qualified to do the job. Acheson then accepted.
This was the group that decided who was to be executed in the Reign of Terror
Donald Robert Perry Marquis was an American humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, supposed authors of humorous verse. During his lifetime he was equally famous for creating another fictitious character, "the Old Soak," who was the subject of two books, a hit Broadway play (1922–23), a silent movie (1926) and a talkie (1937).
