Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.