[Democracy An American Novel by Henry Adams]@TWC D-Link bookDemocracy An American Novel CHAPTER IV 11/20
Is he telling the truth or not ?" Gore was too experienced in politics to be caught in such a trap as this.
He evaded the question.
"Mr.Ratcliffe has a practical piece of work to do; his business is to make laws and advise the President; he does it extremely well.
We have no other equally good practical politician; it is unfair to require him to be a crusader besides." "No!" interposed Carrington, curtly; "but he need not obstruct crusades. He need not talk virtue and oppose the punishment of vice." "He is a shrewd practical politician," replied Gore, "and he feels first the weak side of any proposed political tactics." With a sigh of despair Madeleine went on: "Who, then, is right? How can we all be right? Half of our wise men declare that the world is going straight to perdition; the other half that it is fast becoming perfect. Both cannot be right.
There is only one thing in life," she went on, laughing, "that I must and will have before I die.
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