A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.
Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.
They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.