The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.
There is no gambling like politics.
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.