I have done everything in my power to maintain, uphold, and secure your rights, but I have failed upon this occasion. I shall retire into private life with the reflection, that I have never, upon any occasion, flinched from performing my duty to you, and the whole of the working classes of the United Kingdom.

Patience and Gentleness is Power. - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),

Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air--it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.

[Erdmann argued that, in proclaiming the First Crusade, Pope Urban II was less interested in restoring the rights of Christians to make pilgrimages to the Holy Sepulchre than in unleashing] an ecclesiastical-knightly war upon heathens ... the conceptual change from armed pilgrim to soldier for the faith took place.

[As civil rights campaigner branded the plan] draconian ... The power to allow the police to detain suspects without charge for up to three months is necessary and reflects the experience of expert investigators in the field.