Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
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.
No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
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.