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The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.


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Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.



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The police are the public and the public are the police.



Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.



In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.



I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.



No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.



Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.

Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.



Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?



There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.



But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.





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