"The great art of governing is to make two-thirds of a nation content, and one-third discontented."

"The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right."

"No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition."

"The English nation is never so great as in adversity."

"I deny that a people can govern itself. Self-government is a contradiction in terms. Whatever form a government assumes, power must be exercised by a minority of numbers."