I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

Silence is the mother of truth.

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

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.

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.