Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
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.