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

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

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

Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.

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

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.