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

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

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.

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

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

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

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.