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. Without it, nothing can succeed. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. The opposition is indispensable.