Political Rumor

Famous quotes containing the words political and/or rumor:

“Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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