Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
Travel teaches toleration.
As for our majority... one is enough.
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
We moralize among ruins.
Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
