Modern Politics Is, At Bottom, A Struggle

The Mind Resorts To Reason For Want Of Training.

All Taxation Is An Evil, But Heavy Taxes, Indiscriminately Levied On Every Everything Are One Of The Greatest Curses That Can Afflict A People

If Washington Were President Now, He Would Have To Learn Our Ways Or Lose His Next Election. Only Fools And Theorists Imagine That Our Society Can Be Handled With Gloves Or Long Poles. One Must Make One's Self A Part Of It. If Virtue Won't Answer Our Purpose, We Must Use Vice, Or Our Opponents Will Put Us Out Of Office, And This Was As True In Washington's Day As It Is Now, And Always Will Be.

Susceptibility To The Highest Forces Is The Highest Genius.

Modern Politics Is, At Bottom, A Struggle Not Of Men But Of Forces. The Men Become Every Year More And More Creatures Of Force, Massed About Central Powerhouses. The Conflict Is No Longer Between The Men, But Between The Motors That Drive The Men, And The Men Tend To Succumb To Their Own Motive Forces.