"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy..." — Thomas Babington Macaulay

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.