Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Party is organized opinion.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.