Select Search World Factbook Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Bartlett's Quotations Respectfully Quoted Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Brewer's Phrase & Fable Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Quotations > Respectfully Quoted   PREVIOUS NEXT   CONTENTS · AUTHOR INDEX · KEYWORD INDEX · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD    Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations.  1989.     NUMBER: 1437 AUTHOR: Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836–1926) QUOTATION: The Post Office Department is like a great root spreading many feet under ground and nourishing the mighty oak. It is the tap root of civilization. ATTRIBUTION: Representative JOSEPH G. CANNON.—L. White Busby, Uncle Joe Cannon, p. 294 (1927).   “Uncle Joe” Cannon, who was Speaker of the House from 1903–1911, served in the House for 46 years. SUBJECTS: Postal Service     CONTENTS · AUTHOR INDEX · KEYWORD INDEX · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD   PREVIOUS NEXT     Shakespeare · Bible · Strunk · Anatomy · Nonfiction · Quotations · Reference · Fiction · Poetry © 1993–2015 Bartleby.com · [Top 150] · Subjects · Titles · Authors · World Lit.