Parties are continually changing. The men of today give place to the men of tomorrow, and the idols which one set worship, the next destroy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.
Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.
Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, and the factious, which aims at the division of the empire and destruction of the authority - and perhaps of the lives - of the reigning branch, both of which parties are fomenting troubles.
In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.
The party at its best has always been a modern party.