"Statesmanship […] must consider first the fortunes of the common people. No statesman has a right to risk these fortu…"

"It is strange so great a statesman should Be so sublime a poet."

"But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of h…"

"La cordiale entente qui existe entre le gouvernement français et celui de la Grande-Bretagne."

"Si l'on n'a pas de meilleurs moyen de sèduction a lui offrir, l'entente cordiale nous paraît fort compromise."

"No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains."

"The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other…"

"The truth is, gentlemen, a statesman is the creature of his age, the child of circumstances, the creation of his time…"

"I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury."

"When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties … they lead their country by …"