Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

All must respect those who respect themselves.

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

Everything in this world depends upon will.