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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
There is no gambling like politics.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Finality is not the language of politics.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.