The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.