"The new political gospel: public office is private graft."
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"From politics it was an easy step to silence."
"I'm an idealist without illusions."
"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."
"The duty of an Opposition is to oppose."
"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President."
"When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion."
"Never underestimate the ego of a politician."
"My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance."
"It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken"
"Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient."
"There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident."
"Information upon points of practical politics."
"The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest."
"I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College."
"We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within."
"Politics is far more complicated than physics."
"Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything."
"...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely."
"So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean."