Politics

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement
It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics
Politics is 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
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times
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