Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

The police are the public and the public are the police.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.