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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have read more
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.
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.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Man is by nature a political animal.
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.