Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

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

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.

What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet, rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens.

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.