I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.