This section is from the book "The Corner Cupboard; Or, Facts For Everybody", by Robert Kemp Philp. Also available from Amazon: The Corner Cupboard; or Facts for Everybody.
" Entangling alliances." - George Washington.
" Where liberty dwells, there is my country." - Benjamin Franklin.
" The post of honor is the private station." - Thomas Jefferson.
" Ebony and topaz." - J. Q. Adams.
" The Union must and shall be preserved." - Andrew Jackson.
" Better to be right than to be President." Henry Clay.
" Union - now and forever, one and inseparable." - Daniel Webster.
" Squatter sovereignty." - Lewis Cass.
" To the victors belong the spoils of office." - William L. Marcy.
" Mint-drops." - Thomas H. Benton.
" The almighty dollar." - Wash. Irving.
" Face the music." - J. Fennimore Cooper.
" The largest liberty." - Wm. C. Bryant.
" The bone and sinew of the country." - William Leggett.
" Don't give up the ship." - Captain Lawrence.
" He's got an ax to grind." - J. K.Paulding.
"Valuable water privileges." - George P. Morris.
" Telegram." - National Intelligencer.
" He's not worth a row of pins." - Gorham A. Worth.
" He's as short as a rabbit's tail." - Jacob Barker.
" The loco foco party." - Charles Davis.
" The whig party." - Philip Hone.
" All's fair in politics." - M. M. Noah.
" Happy as a clam at high water." - Wm. Mitchell.
" Cotton is king." - John Randolph.
" Handy as a pocket in a shirt." - Southern paper.
" Upper tendom." - N. P. Willis. " Straws show which way the wind blows.' - James Cheatham.
" The Empire State." - John C. Calhoun.
" A good man ; but he can't keep a hotel - Negro minstrels.
" All's not gold that glitters - Portfolio.
"Northern fanatics and southern lire-eaters." - Tammany Hall.
" United we stand, divided we fall." - Watchword of the American Revolution.
" Bleeding Kansas."' - Horace Greeley.
" Border ruffians." - J. G. Bennett.
"Fifty-four-forty, or fight." - Western paper.
 
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