It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

I am not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but I will at once declare that, as far as I am concerned, as long as I hold any station in the Government of the country, I shall always feel it my duty to resist such measures when proposed by others.