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 conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.