I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.

I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?

The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country.

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country.

At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.