Minister

.—I do not know how it is, but I never liked a minister in all my days. Our friends Oxford and Bolingbroke I had a sincere value for in their private stations, but in their public capacities I looked upon them both as little better than a couple of rascals. In fact, I believe it impossible for any minister to be an honest man: there are fifty thousand trap-doors, from the very nature of his office, in which it is next to impossible but his integrity must tumble. All ministers, as well as all priests, are the same.

Swift to Pope.