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.

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

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

There is moderation even in excess.