There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.
Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.
You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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