Statesman Quotes

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Little things affect little minds.
London is a modern Babylon.
London is a roost for every bird.
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Never complain and never explain.
Never take anything for granted.
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