A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.