No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is - the determination to maintain the Empire of England.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

I say that justice is truth in action.