Political Rumor

Famous quotes containing the words political and/or rumor:

“He is unable to take a fact out of its merely political relations, and behold it as it lies absolutely to be disposed of by the intellect,—what, for instance, it behooves a man to do here in America to-day with regard to slavery.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“One rumor straight comes huddling on another
Of death, and death, and death!”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)