Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

It seems to me a barren thing this conservatism - an unhappy cross breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.