Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1407 |
| AUTHOR: | Artemus Ward (1834–67) |
| QUOTATION: | I’m not a politician and my other habits are good. I’ve no enemys to reward, nor friends to sponge. But I’m a Union man. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 15th ed., p. 616, footnote 2 (1980), says the first sentence was a favorite quotation of John F. Kennedy’s. |
| SUBJECTS: | Politicians |