Nothing is more fickle than people in a crowd, nothing harder to discover than how men intend to vote, nothing trickier than the whole way in which elections work.
Politics is gambling for high stakes with other people’s money… Politics is a job that can be compared with navigation…
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!
A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese,…