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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim
insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.
Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim
insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.
It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory.
It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory.
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little read more
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read more
The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of read more
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have read more
Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can’t ruin this country even with politics.
Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.