Almanac: Thoreau on politics

“Politics is, as it were, the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its two opposite halves,–sometimes split into quarters, it may be, which grind on each other. Not only individuals, but States, have thus a confirmed dyspepsia, which expresses itself, you can imagine by what sort of eloquence.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Life Without Principle”