Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.