In fact, their support will damn any politician eternally, for the people wisely conclude that what the alleged "great dailies" support is a pretty good thing for them to oppose.
Shakespeare was probably viewing the Texas politician with prophetic eye when he declared that in the great Drama of Life a man plays many parts.
But for Gall of the A1, triple X brand, commend me to the little pot-house politician who poses as a political prophet and points out to wiser men their public duties.
They have no more affinity than a practical politician and pure spring water; but they dance and flirt, fool around the front gate in the dark of the moon, sigh and talk nonsense.
The master-statesman Pitt had gone out of power and the back-stairs politician Bute had come in.
Though Montgomery wrote bunkum like the common politician of that and many a later age, he was really a brave soldier.
Any practical politician could have told them that, but I'm glad to hear that a mathematical tool to work on the problem has been devised.
Had the sheriff been less evasive, less nervous, less of a politician and more of a man, there was still time for him to avert disaster.
Thomas Crawford worked for a time for the Uniontown Steel Company, and on the suspension of that firm, went into business with Jack Clifford alternately as politician and book agent.
There was politics in this speech, but almost every member of a labor organization is a politician in a small way, and McLuckie's bill of indictment against the Republican party struck fairly home.
In regard to politics, I am not quite certain whether a politician may not be too far-sighted: but I am quite certain that, if it be a fault, it is one into which few have fallen.
Nothing is more ludicrous than the fervent politician who attempts unearthly consistency in thought, word, and deed.
Besides, he was ever hoping that the natural passion for schism which permeates every Irish politician would dissever the alliance of the Presbyterians with the Catholic Committee.
The native politicianwell maintained his reputation for suspecting his best friends.
As a member of the Cabinet, Lord Cadogan's political sympathies were obvious, yet in an extraordinary way he managed to conceal the politician in the administrator.
After all, the life of an actress belongs to the theater as the life of a soldier belongs to the army, the life of a politician to the State, and the life of a woman of fashion to society.
His greatest faults were those of a politician anxious for the success of his party.
Only a month after his appointment, the printer, poet and politician died in the famous old government house, admittance to which had been denied him in the stormy days when he fought Lord Falkland.
Carter, then speaker of the house of assembly, and by Mr. Ambrose Shea, also a distinguished politician of the great island.
But whatever his opinions on the questions of the day he was too discreet a politician and too honest a judge ever to have descended to such a travesty of justice as had been shown by his predecessor in the case of Gourlay.
The old miner was too shrewd a politician to doubt now for a moment the situation.
The arts of the politician were foreign to his nature.
An English politician who professed Independent views, and from the violence of his denunciation of his opponents was nicknamed "Tear 'em.
George Villiers, the fourth earl, according to his English biographers, represented the highest type of English politician and English gentleman.
An English politician who sat in the British Parliament for English, Irish, and Scotch constituencies as Tory and later as Radical.
How long does it take a clever politician to befuddle them?
This is thick," said Ben Galt, dodging the straw hat with which a perspiring politician was fanning himself and gently withdrawing himself from the arms of a scarlet individual in a wet collar to collide with his double.
My dear and valued friend, a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.
Of course, that bill is a political swindle, but there isn't another politician in the State who would interfere in Rann's little game.
It struck me that where a politician thought a thing evil, he ought not to support it as good.
A young politician must go with his party; a veteran journalist like myself is more independent.
As a politicianhe was equally notorious for his skill in debate and his want of public principle.
As a politician Fourier achieved uncommon success, but his fame chiefly rests on his strikingly original contributions to science and mathematics.
Fraser, a sturdy clear-headed Highlander, had been the one politician in the Free State who combined a perfect loyalty to his adopted country with a just appreciation of what a quarrel A l'outrance with the British Empire would mean.
The same politician made the same proposal to Mr. Beit.
The Spanish politician has evidently not a little mind, for he has no fear whatever of inconsistency, nor, in fact, of making a volte-face whenever he sees any reason for doing so.
With this object in view, the astute politician worked harder than ever for the regeneration of the State.
The false politician is the serving-man of the state.
Socrates, who is not a politician at all, tells us that he is the only real politician of his time.
Socrates makes the singular remark, that he is himself the only true politician of his age.
In other passages, especially in the Apology, he disclaims being a politician at all.
The false politician asks not what is true, but what is the opinion of the world--not what is right, but what is expedient.
But experience shows that they are commonly divorced--the ordinary politicianis the interpreter or executor of the thoughts of others, and hardly ever brings to the birth a new political conception.
All the tricks of the politician were resorted to to defeat the cause of right, and more than once by misrepresentation they obtained the announcement in the public press that the case was decided, and women forever excluded.
To do this, woman likewise must act her part in the labor of arresting the advance of crime and corruption, although through timidity the politician is slow to invest her with the higher duties and obligations of American citizenship.
The Kentucky poet andpolitician thus rejoins: 'We have no more doubt that Mr. EDGAR A.
Sir Robert, as a politician and statesman, watched the progress of this agitation, as also the effect of the changes made in 1842; and he tells us he was gradually weakened in his views as to the protection of British grown corn.
Gilbert Burnet, in liberality as a politician and tolerance as a Churchman, was far in advance of his order and time.
The former exerted himself to save his illustrious friend from persecution, and omitted no opportunity to defend him as a politician and to eulogize him as a poet.
While teeming with interest, moral and historical, to the general reader, it may be regarded as equally constituting a philosophical study for the politician and the statesman.
