There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.

The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.