My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

Some men are born posthumously.

The king is gone but he's not forgotten.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.