Politics is not a science...but an art.

Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.