Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of HalifaxA man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of HalifaxThere is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of HalifaxIgnorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax