In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.

- Joseph Gurney Cannon

A majority can do anything.

- Joseph Gurney Cannon

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

- Joseph Gurney Cannon

I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote fo…

- Joseph Gurney Cannon