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.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

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.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.