Traits of the type of person
 who is a dishonest politician and should not serve as an elected official of the people of the United States: 

1. He/she is deficient in honesty. Sad and sickening stories will be related to this person.
2. As a politician, discerning people of all political parties find that this person has but one principle – to get power by any means, and to keep it by all means.
3. This person is of an ambition too irregular and inordinate to be content with institutions that leave his power precarious, he/she is of too bold and sanguine a temper to think anything too hazardous to be attempted, or too difficult to be accomplished.
4. As to talents, they are great for management and intrigue – but this person is yet to give the first proofs that they are equal to the act of governing well.
5. As to this person’s theory, no one can tell what it is.  Institutions that would serve this person’s own purpose (such as the government of another country, lobbyists, special interest groups, factions, and the like), not such as would promise lasting prosperity and glory to our country, would be this person’s preference, because this person cares only for himself and the groups which control this person.
6. It is certain that this person’s irregular ambition cannot be supported by good men (few though they may be), and this person will court and employ the worst people of all parties as the most eligible instruments.  His/her actions will scourge the country.
7. As to foreign politics, war will be a necessary means of power and wealth.  The animosity of another country will be the handle by which this person will attempt (and usually succeed) to wield the nation to that point.  Within this person’s term of office, he/she will advocate positions that, if acted upon, would in a matter of months place this country in yet another state of war with that power and thus further increase the national debt (which leads to struggles and to war) and bring the United States to ruin and bankruptcy. Then, they try to put forth the plan that any disagreement with the government is a form of disloyalty or perhaps treason (as with totalitarian systems), thus disallowing freedom for the individual citizen. This is their attempt to scare the voters.
8. Wars are fought for the expectation of gain, or even for personal glory or revenge or ambition.
9. To win votes, they promise the voters an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils incident to society in every shape, not of which a word do they intend to follow through.
10. Most politicians are not to be trusted with power because they are selfish, passionate, full of whims, caprices and prejudices and their own immediate interests, especially of taking money from special interest groups, thus increasing their own wealth. 

Should all politicians be of this type, we should see no longer any thing upon which to rest the hope of public or private prosperity.