One has no notion of him as making use of a fine pen, but a great mutton-fist; his style stuns his readers:He is too much for any single newspaper antagonist; 'lays waste' a city orator or Member of Parliament, and bears hard upon the Government itself. He is a kind of fourth estate in the politics of the country. He is not only unquestionably the most powerful political writer of the present day, but one of the best writers in the language. He speaks and thinks plain, broad, downright English.

A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.

The pattern John Bull of his century, strong as the rhinoceros, and with singular humanities and genialities shining through his thick skin.

I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects.... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that [my children] sho…

Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, w…

The Times is speechless and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.