It did in particular exasperate Tacitus, and other politicks of his temper, to see so many natural Romans renounce their name and country for maintenance of Jewish religion.—Jackson, The Eternal Truth of Scriptures, b. i. c. 20.
Let them [spiritual persons] have the diligence and craft of fishers, the watchfulness and the care of shepherds, the prudence of politics, the tenderness of parents.—Bishop Taylor, Life of Christ, part ii. § 12.
If this arch-politician [the Devil] find in his pupils any remorse, any feeling or fear of God’s future judgment, he persuades them that God hath so great need of men’s souls that He will accept them at any time and upon any conditions.—Sir W. Raleigh, History of the World, b. i. c. 7, § 9.
Why, look you, I am whipped and scourged with rods,
Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear
Of this vile politician Bolingbroke.
Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV., act i. sc. 3.
A politician is the devil’s quilted anvil;
He fashions all sins on him and the blows
Are never heard.