Principle Is Ever My Motto, No Expediency.

You Will Find As You Grow Older That Courage Is The Rarest Of All Qualities To Be Found In Public Life.

If You Establish A Democracy, You Must In Due Time Reap The Fruits Of A Democracy. You Will In Due Season Have Great Impatience Of Public Burdens, Combined In Due Season With Great Increase Of Public Expenditure. You Will In Due Season Have Wars Entered Into From Passion And Not From Reason; And You Will In Due Season Submit To Peace Ignominiously Sought And Ignominiously Obtained, Which Will Diminish Your Authority And Perhaps Endanger Your Independence. You Will In Due Season Find Your Property Is Less Valuable, And Your Freedom Less Complete.

The People Of England Are The Most Enthusiastic In The World.

Without Tact You Can Learn Nothing.

The Depositary Of Power Is Always Unpopular.