A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
(The President) is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglars in politics as well as mortals.