The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the f
“Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.”