Who said “In politics the middle way is none at all.”?

“In politics, nothing is contemptible.”

“Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.”

“I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.”

“Now an' then an innocent man is sent t' th' legislature.”

“A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.”

“The happiness of society is the end of government.”

“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.”

“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”