Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge, or vicar.

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

I loved him for himself alone.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of eith…