Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.