Holding Power

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“An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)