I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another but let him work...
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it...
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said 'Truth...
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer if it...
When I am getting ready to reason with a man I spend one-third of my time...
You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the...
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important...
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens you can never...
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for...
No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is...
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics mistakes are wounding...
The difference between the men and the boys in politics is and always has...
We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without...
First take the government of the Indians out of politics second let the...
Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that...
I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about...
Most people get their politics obviously from TV shows about senators or...
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling or about...
There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game but...