Nathaniel Macon Quotes

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

the craftiest and most dishonest politician who ever disgraced an office in America.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

Was any government through its chief magistrate ever more vilely prostituted?

… he must deceive, misrepresent, leave false impressions … and trust to charm, loyalty and the result to make up for it…. A great man cannot be a good man.

Who taught us corruption? I believe it was you, frankly... It's an import.

That nation is as depraved in its politics as in its morals.... England is the monster against which we should be always prepared.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth there's hardly any difference.

They [the Republicans] are the most crooked, lying bunch I have ever seen.

The moral state of society was most terrible. We stole from ourselves, took and gave bribes, lied in the reports, in newspapers, from high podiums. And all of this from top to bottom; from bottom to top.

… politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia

Governor [Myron] Herrick is not a bad man; he is simply weak. He is one of those men who can do dishonest things honestly.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

Evil is evil, and it doesn't discriminate by dress. Some evil people in the headlines wear designer suits and wing-tipped shoes.

I don't know how to play evil.

The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief.

For the people who are offended about the fact that we have a bunch of criminals and criminal enablers and buffoons and scheisters and con men and frauds and real estate frauds running our country and our government, they like to hear that they're not the only ones that feel that way.

Ed Rogers is a career insider who has personally enriched himself off of what he decries.

This is the belief of the Left: You negotiate with evil, and get tough with your allies

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

One of my most often repeated quips was the one I made when former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon stood by each other at a White House event. 'There they are,' I said. 'See no evil, hear no evil, and . . . evil.'