The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

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.

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.

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.

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

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A friend is one who dislikes the same people that you dislike.

It's very confusing to me why people take comedians so seriously.

Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.