Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.