He clambered up the city's Democratic party ladder, on the way collecting allies and enemies with utter disregard for the consequences, attending the typically unruly Tammany meetings armed with bowie knife and pistol. He pursued his legal career in the same unfettered fashion. The New York diarist George Templeton Strong, himself a lawyer, described Sickles as "one of the bigger bubbles in the scum of the profession, swollen and windy, and puffed out with fetid gas." Few ever expressed a neutral opinion about Dan Sickles.
- From Controversies & Commanders: Dispatches from The Army of the Potomac by Stephen W. Sears
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