Practical politics consists of ignoring facts.
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If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.
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You can't use tact with a Congressman. A Congressman is a hog. You must take a stick and hit him on the snout.
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In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man
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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
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