Nothing is easier than for him to give extravagant promises while an election is depending, and to forget them as soon as the return is made.

I will take no such course.
I do not wish to obtain a single vote on false pretences.

Under the old system I have never been the flatterer of the great.

Under the new system I will not be the flatterer of the people.

The truth, or what appears to me to be such, may sometimes be distasteful to those whose good opinion I most value.