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   Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations.  1989.
 
 
NUMBER:273
AUTHOR:Peter Stone (1930–  )
QUOTATION:I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.
ATTRIBUTION:PETER STONE, book, and SHERMAN EDWARDS, music and lyrics, 1776, A Musical Play, scene I. John Adams speaks these lines to open the play.
SUBJECTS:Congress
 
 
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