"I am a man who has a good deal of respect for the law, but I have a good deal more respect for justice."

"I am a most uncompromising enemy of the present system of administering the poor-laws."

"I have known a good many people who have had their heads cut off, and I never knew one who didn't deserve it."

"The poor are always with us, but they are not always with us in the same numbers."

"I don't believe in the perfectibility of the human race."