But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

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

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?

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

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

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.