A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

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

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear 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.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.