"The English nation is never so great as in adversity."

"I deny that a people can govern itself. Self-government is a contradiction in terms. Whatever form a government assumes, power must be exercised by a minority of numbers."

"You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on."

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."

"He is a young, sophisticated rhetorician who is inebriated by the exuberance of his own verbosity."