“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.”
“England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.”
“The art of government is not to let me grow stale.”
“In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.”
“A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.”
“Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.”
“Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods,Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hearOf this vile politician, Bolingbroke.”
“For Brutus is an honourable man;So are they all, all honourable men.”
“Policy sits above conscience.”
“Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.”
“When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.”
“Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.”
“He was not so much brain as earwax”
“There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.”
“For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.”
