Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Every class is unfit to govern.

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.