Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.