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

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

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.

There is no diplomacy like silence.

The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.