“People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.”

“The art of making much show with little substance.”

“A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.”

“In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.”

“The temple of silence and reconciliation.”

“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”

“Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place.”

“Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.”

“Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.”