"I believe that nothing in newspapers is ever true. And that is why they are so popular; the taste of the age being so decidedly for fiction."

"The most fatal error possible in politics is that of ignoring the spirit of the age."

"The only object of a good government is to obtain the greatest happiness of the greatest number."

"It is race, not religion that interests me."

"No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition."