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.

To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.