Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.
I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.