The big men are outside.
Politics are little more than a platform for a pugilistic kind of rhetoric.

He who can talk glibly and with occasional touches of such sentimentalism as one finds in a Penny Reciter is assured of the ear of the House of Commons, and may fairly count on one day becoming a Minister of State.

But the field for the constructive, imaginative, and creative minds is the field of commerce.
The danger of the State from this condition of things is, unhappily, not only the loss of creative statesmanship at the head of the nation--serious as that is.

The danger is greater.

Small men are more likely to fall into dishonest ways than big men.