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.

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

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

However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

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

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