The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

Real Patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favourite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

[Mr. Attlee, then Prime Minister] the other day accused me of being party minded. Everyone would naturally be shocked if a party leader were party minded! But we are all party minded in the baffling and unhappy period between election decisions.

Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.