Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.