John James Ingalls

John James Ingalls

John James Ingalls (December 29, 1833 – August 16, 1900) was an American Republican politician who served as a United States senator from Kansas.

Quotes

• The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.
  • Epigram, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.
  • Eulogy on Benjamin Hill, United States Senate, Jan. 23, 1882.

Attributed

• Ad astra per aspera.
• Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".
  • State motto of Kansas, reported to have been devised by Ingalls.