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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don’t serve us well because they don’t tell the truth, and they don’t keep their promises.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Ambition – it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Be as you wish to seem.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.