Franklin Smith

“ The organization of powerful political parties becomes natural and inevitable. It is just as natural and inevitable that the more numerous the duties intrusted to the State - that is, the greater the spoil to be fought for in caucus and convention and on the floors of Legislatures - the more powerful, dangerous and demoralizing they are certain to be. ”

“ As long as the conditions are maintained that created him, so long will he ply his profession. When they are abolished he will be abolished. No number of citizens' unions or non-partisan movements, or other devices of hopeful but misguided reformers to abolish him, can modify or reverse this immutable decree of social science. ”

“ Neither is it any wonder that there springs up a class of men to look after the duties he neglects and to make such work a means of subsistence. The very law of evolution requires such a differentiation of social functions and organs. ”