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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.