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I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
A fool and his money are soon elected.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.