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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.