A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Louisiana wants a leader that will take their values to D.C. and will fight for them without wavering.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.
Luxury cannot afford to intimidate.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
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