This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma, Inkerman, and Balaclava, may be glorious but are certainly nothing more.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by sup…