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.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Party honesty is party expediency.

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.

It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory.

It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory.

We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and
identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have read more

We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and
identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been
Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.

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

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle read more

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of
discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human
immaturity.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human
immaturity.