"Politics, as the word is commonly understood,..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift

“Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.”

“Perverseness is your whole defence.”

“Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.”

“There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified.”

“Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.”

“The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.”

“Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.”

“Now these fellows in Washington wouldn't be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was good for the majority of the people in the U.S. That would be a cinch. But what makes it hard for them is every time a bill comes up they have things to decide that have nothing to do with the merit of the bill. The principal thing is of course: What will this do for me personally back home?”

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”