Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.
Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.
Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington.
For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.
The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.
The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.
Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds, and I probably know little of these years through which I busily work and live, beyond this, how sin and frailty deface them, and how mercy crowns them.
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords but a slender guarantee for being right.
Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.
You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.
I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.