'The proceedings of these people,' wrote Sir Guy Carleton, 'are not to be attributed to politics aloneit serves as a pretence, and under that cloak they act more boldly, but avarice and a desire of rapine are the great incentives.

As the soul wings itself toward the light of simple truth, so should the body politic aspire to perfect freedom.

The greatest wonder is at Fairfax, how he comes to be a babe of grace, certainly it is not in his personal, but (as the State-sophies distinguish) in his politic capacity; degenerate ab extra by the zeal of the house he sat in, as chickens are hatched at Grand Cairo by the adoption of an oven.

In the last days of July, 1914, backed by the Kaiser, he had opposed the mobilisation order sufficient to cause a three days' delaywhich his military opponents in German politics claim was the chief cause of the failure to take Parisbut in the case of the Lusitania he was even more powerless against rampant militarism.

Thus having beat the clouds with painful flight, The pitied youth, with sceptres in his sight (So have their cruel politics decreed), Must by that crew, that made him guilty, bleed!

The theory that politics degrade women will not find much support in such States as Colorado and Wyoming.

These do not strike us so much as the moral injury which many weak and passionate minds sustain from the necessity of destroying life, of ravaging and burning, of inflicting upon the enemy politic distresses.

Organ of rut, not reason, is the lord Who from the body politic doth drain Lust for himself, instead of toil and pain, Leaving us lean as crickets on dry sward.

Rome will not suit me, Eustace; the priests and soldiers possess it; Priests and soldiers;and, ah! which is worst, the priest or the soldier? Politics farewell, however!

Kingdoms, provinces, and politic bodies are likewise sensible and subject to this disease, as [470]Boterus in his politics hath proved at large.

In early politics ideals are concerned simply with personal allegiance to some dynastic chief, a feudal lord or a monarch.

All that at home no more can beg or steal, Or like a gibbet better than a wheel; Hiss'd from the stage, or hooted from the court, Their air, their dress, their politics import; 110 Obsequious, artful, voluble, and gay, On Britain's fond credulity they prey.

For the moment, therefore, nearly all students of politics analyse institutions and avoid the analysis of man.

Thrones totter and fall; Commanders-in-chief are superseded; Admirals of the High Fleet are displaced; in politics leaders come and go and reputations pass; in ordinary life a thousand mutations are visible.

In politics man has to make like things as well as to learn their significance.

In politics party-organization saves us the pains of much thinking before deciding how to cast our vote.

'War', he says, 'is politics par excellence,' that is to say, politics at their purest and highest.

The king could not repress a smile at this solemn nonsense; yet honoured the politic pilot with a private audience, and gave him money to encourage him to propagate the deception.

From the point of view of internal politics progress has been less satisfactory.

The rules for valid reasoning laid down by the Greeks were intended primarily for use in politics, but in politics reasoning has in fact proved to be more difficult and less successful than in the physical sciences.

The latter was one of my mother's politic requirements, to make our laundry lists as short as possible.

Lincoln's parentage Rail splitter; country merchant In the Black Hawk war Postmaster His aspirations and passion for politics Stump speaker Surveyor Elected to the legislature Lincoln as politician Admitted to the bar Elected member of Congress His marriage Lincoln as lawyer Orator

At home there are no politics stirring, but the domestic.

In the train of this capture follow the troops of scandals, wrongs, indecencies, with which our politics swarm.

In general politics women have counted scarcely more than have the women of other States.