"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."

"The Conservative Party is a party of great principles, of great traditions, a party that has ever been associated with the glory and the greatness of England."

"Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell ma…"

"At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists."

"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour."