A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
The lady's not for turning.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
