Louisiana Voice

“An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.”

—Financier, U.S. Senator, and Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of War for one year Simon Cameron (erroneously attributed at various times to Lyndon Johnson and Huey Long, among others). Cameron resigned from Lincoln’s cabinet because of notorious corruption. When he demanded That Thaddeus Stevens take back his statement to President Lincoln in which Stevens said, “I don’t think he would steal a red-hot stove,” Stevens obliged by then saying to Lincoln, “I believe I told you he would not steal a red-hot stove. I will now take that back.”