To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Category Archive: 1809
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.