The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.