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

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The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home.

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.