England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.