I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.