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

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

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

I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.