"Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe."

"I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,—thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party."

"States are great engines moving slowly."

"Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King."

""Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law whi…"

"England is the mother of parliaments."

"Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive bacillum vere superius inflexum sit."

"It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king."

"Perish commerce. Let the constitution live!"

"Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government…"