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

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.