Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

You let men in power assume power 'for the Little Man'. But you yourself remain silent. You give men in power or impotent people with evil intentions the power…

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently chec…

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.