Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.