John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
10447 Appendix John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 10447 |
| AUTHOR: | Appendix |
| QUOTATION: | New departure. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | This new page opened in the book of our public expenditures, and this new departure taken, which leads into the bottomless gulf of civil pensions and family gratuities.—T. H. Benton: Speech in the U. S. Senate against a grant to President Harrison’s widow, April, 1841. |