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

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.