"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies ..." — Thomas Babington Macaulay

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

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.