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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

I don't think sleeping with you is going to solve anything, " she said, stopping at the guest bedroom door."I don't really care what you think.

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after a while and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

New Hampshire's one of my favorite places.

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.' 'Why are you saying that?' 'She might need permission to die, Cal.' 'I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission.

I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office.

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.

I mean I've always been a big dude.

What if you just did it your own way? No rules, no right or wrong, just what you think is beautiful?