The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

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.

Success is the child of audacity.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.