Money is economic power

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.