A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.

Silence is the mother of truth.

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.