The new political gospel: public office is private graft.
You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.
You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.