The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie. Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. It breeds votes.
Absolute power is kind of neat.
A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. Only a Republican would think the best part of Viagra is the fact that you could make money off of it. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. Men still have to be governed by deception. The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.