Politics have no relation to morals.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. As we hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. Because vote is the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians...