An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there. In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy. Actions have consequences. The mind can absorb no more than the seat can endure.
Personnel is policy.
Remember it's a long ball game. The test of moral ideas is moral results. You can't beat somebody with nobody. Better a snake in the grass than a viper in your bosom. Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.