Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.