A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

An obedient wife commands her husband.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.