Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have read more

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can’t ruin this country even with politics.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition
that it is the harness and not the horses read more

Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition
that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot
along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the
distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures
comparatively nothing.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

The White Plume of Navarre.

The White Plume of Navarre.

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.