It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection

Politicians / power itself / are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.