There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

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

The unfortunate are always egotistical.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.