I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

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!

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.