All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

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

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.