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With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people’s money.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

What’s important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.