“An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.”
Source: The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
“He believed that rank without power was a sham.”
Source: The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
“He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.”
Source: The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
“I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.”
“… the South is the land of Washington, who made our Nation – of Jefferson, who shaped its direction – and of Robert E. Lee who, after gallant failure, urged those who had followed him in bravery to reunite America in purpose and courage.” --President John F. Kennedy”
“Furthermore, a serious distortion of statesmanship occurs. Year by year, the statesman's time is increasingly devoted to an growing subset of misfits and neurotics, supposedly "oppressed" by an unfair social system which must be rectified. Little by little, the "oppressed" become the state's chief preoccupation, eclipsing the traditional tasks of statesmanship. The system no longer justifies itself in religious or historical terms, but on egalitarian grounds, in terms of "fairness" or "social justice." What actually happens, overall, is that greater and greater demands are placed upon the productive citizen to provide for the unproductive.”
“You were made in the image of God. Act accordingly!”
Source: Holy Moments: A handbook for the rest of your life
“Sama meant conciliation or alliances; Dana was giving gifts or compensation; Bheda was to reason with logic, and Danda meant physical altercation or war.”
Source: British Raj Thillana: The Finale
“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.”
Source: Winter of the World
“Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman.”
Source: Scientific Man Versus Power Politics