Philander Chase Johnson

Philander Chase Johnson (1866–1939) was an American journalist, humorist, poet, lyricist, and dramatic editor. At the time of his death, he had been a Washington Evening Star staff member for 47 years. Prior to joining the Evening Star, he had been an editorial writer for The Washington Post.

• "Cheer up, the worst is yet to come."
• "Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery."
• "Politics is the art of turning influence into affluence."

• Johnson, Philander Chase (1906). Senator Sorghum's primer of Politics. Philadelphia: H. Altemus company. Retrieved 2 January 2015. 

• Sayings of Uncle Eben (1896)
• Now-A-Day Poems (1900)
• Songs Of The G. O. P. (1900)
• Senator Sorghum's primer of politics (1906)
• No use kickin' (1909)
• In the tall timber : an opera bluffe (1912)
• Somewhere In France Is the Lily (1918)