"I'll keep cool, mother."
"The trouble with the people of this country is this, Mr. Merivale" . . . Mr. Wilkinson frowned ponderously. "The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it. . . . After all we built up this country and then we allow a lot of foreigners, the scum of Europe, the offscourings of Polish ghettos to come and run it for us."
"The fact of the matter is that an honest man wont soil his hands with politics, and he's given no inducement to take public office."
"That's true, a live man, nowadays, wants more money, needs more money than he can make honestly in public life. . . . Naturally the best men turn to other channels."
"And add to that the ignorance of these dirty kikes and shanty Irish that we make voters b
