Excerpt from In the Arena: Stories of Political Life
The old-timer, a lean, retired pantaloon, sitting with loosely slippered feet close to the fire, thus gave of his wisdom to the questioning student:
"Looking back upon it all, what we most need "in polities" is more good men. Thousands of good men Are in; and they need the others who are not in. More would come if they knew how Much they are needed. The dilettantes of the clubs who have so easily abused me, for instance, all my life, for being a ward-worker, these and those other reformers who write papers about national corruption when they don"t know how their own wards are swung, probably aren"t so useful as they might be.
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