"A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy."

"The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, t…"

"Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret."

"Power has its duties as well as its rights."

"The only object of a good government is to obtain the greatest happiness of the greatest number."