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England is the mother of parliaments. - in a speech at Birmingham, England [Government] Force is no remedy. - [Force : Reformation] I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party. - in a speech at Birmingham, England [Government] Popular applause veers with the wind. - [Popularity] The angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. - [Death] The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter. - in a speech at Birmingham, England [Suicide] Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people. - in a speech at Rochdale, England [Government] What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past time. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me. - [Books] But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is for our sympathies, for the manner in which we regard it, and for the tone in which we discuss it. What shall we say, then, with regard to it? On which side shall we stand? - Speech on Slavery and Secession [Sympathy]
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