"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions." ― Jonathan Swift Topic(s): Politics More From Jonathan Swift "Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest." "Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent." "May you live all the days of your life." More In Politics "I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn’t find my way into the fictional world… When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts."― David Guterson "Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel."― Tryon Edwards "Liberalism is Rationalism in politics."― Francis Parker Yockey