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The White Plume of Navarre.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Man is by nature a civic animal.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission.

It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as at the measures.

We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.

One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry.

The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim insociabiles , began to incounter each other.

I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method.

There are no true friends in politics.