Alexander Pope Quotes about Politics
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