The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Travel makes a wise man better and a fool worse.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
Men always makes gods in their own image.
The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.
Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit...