The purse strings tie us to our kind.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

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.

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

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.