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.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

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

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.