Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

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.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.