...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.