Tammany

Examples

• You can beat Tammany Hall permanently in one way--by making the government of a city as human, as kindly, as jolly as Tammany Hall. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Finally the Tammany leader called a halt, as we were running big engine lathes out on the sidewalk, and he was afraid we were carrying it a little too far. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The really rigid and mechanical thing is the charter behind which Tammany works. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We forget completely the important wants supplied by Tammany Hall. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And the Roman voters were organized to an extent that makes the Tammany machine of New York seem artless and honest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When one of the Tammany aspirants appeared, he was told to go right to work at $1. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I am aware of the contract-grafts, the franchise-steals, the dirty streets, the bribing and the blackmail, the vice-and-crime partnerships, the Big Business alliances of Tammany Hall. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• As our business increased enormously, our quarters became too small, so we saw the district Tammany leader and asked him if we could not store castings and other things on the sidewalk. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Tammany is not a freak, a strange and monstrous excrescence. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You can find Tammany duplicated wherever there is a social group to be governed--in trade unions, in clubs, in boys' gangs, in the Four Hundred, in the Socialist Party. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Tammany is not a satanic instrument of deception, cleverly devised to thwart the will of the people. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In its long record of failure, in the comparative success of Tammany, those who are aiming at social changes can see a profound lesson; the impulses, cravings and wants of men must be employed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Tammany itself becomes rigid when it is too successful, and only defeat seems to give it new life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That made the Tammany man all safe. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• For Tammany is the real government that has defeated a mechanical foresight. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Editor: Stanton