The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards