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Alexander Pope Quotes about Politics

Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

Alexander Pope (2002). “Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.156, Routledge

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

'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Cobham' (1734) l. 248

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Letter to Edward Blount, 27 August 1714, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 1, p. 247