I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.

The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap.

I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians.

Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.

... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.

I do not believe the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.

You can't die with an unfinished book.

Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.