What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
We are muddled into war.
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
