"Politiikka on lupauksien taidetta. (V. A. Koskenniemi) (SSSK)"

"The gratitude of place expectants is a lively sense of future favours."

":A weapon that comes down as still As snowflakes fall upon the sod; But executes a freeman's will, As lightning does …"

"Get thee glass eyes; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not."

"Persuade me not; I will make a Star-chamber matter of it."

"Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?"

"A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect."

"Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last."

"Abstain from beans."

"O, that estates, degrees, and offices Were not deriv'd corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit o…"