Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
History is more interesting than politics.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Politics abhors a vacuum.
The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.
I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.