We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!