It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
Half a truth is better than no politics.
I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.
For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.
Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.
Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.
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