Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.

Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.

No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.

Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.

The scene is France. The theater is the world.

All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.

The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.

Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?