We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

I'm too busy. I have no time for worry.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.