As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!