Politeness smooths wrinkles.—Joubert.
Politeness is as natural to delicate natures as perfume is to flowers.—De Finod.
Politics.—It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confederates.—Bulwer-Lytton.
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.—Daniel O'Connell.
Those who think must govern those who toil.—Goldsmith.
The man who can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, grow on the spot where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and render more essential service to the country, than the whole race of politicians put together.—Swift.
Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.—Pope.
Wise men and gods are on the strongest side.—Sir C. Sedley.
The thorough-paced politician must laugh at the squeamishness of his conscience, and read it another lecture.—South.
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; an hour may lay it in the dust.—Byron.