Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.