Chauncey Depew — American Politician born on April 23, 1834, died on April 05, 1928

Chauncey Mitchell Depew was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911... (wikipedia)

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.