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“We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it.”
“Politic, cautious, and meticulous;full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse”
“Beware of affect adorning vêtement of effect.”
“And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good...”
“But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the dist...”
“A prince ought to have two fears one from within on account of his subjects the other from without on account of external powers. From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good ...”
“We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.”
“Didn’t somebody once say ‘Politics is the art of the possible’?” “Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible.”
“It's politics . . . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you'll know what I mean.”
“...Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism,...”
“Such is the psychology of crowds that the majority will follow whoever appeared to be in power...”
“Terrible is the situation of a small country that stands alone.”
“Artificially to incite hatred is not only supererogatory in politics and foreign relations, it is also positively harmful.”
“Great nations, and even medium-sized ones, can always seek revision of frontiers by normal diplomatic means - if the political climate is favourable. No propaganda or previous jockeying for positio...”
“Propaganda, if too raucous, will always prove counterproductive. The damage arises because in peacetime the nation that never stops menacing others and shouting grievances is at once labelled a dis...”
“The public can never know all the facts, ands public opinion is always swayed by passion, never by reason and the best interests of the country.It may sometimes be necessary to stir up passion, but...”
“The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...”
“...[T]he right way is to give one's attention first to the highest good of the young, just as you expect a good gardener to give his attention first to the young plants, and after that to the other...”
“I began to entertain a suspicion, that no man in this age was sufficiently qualified for such an undertaking; and that whatever any one should advance on that head would, in all probability, be ref...”
“I’m a politician so I only endorse myself.”
