I will not bind myself to make or to support any particular motion.

I will state as shortly as I can some of the reasons which have induced me to form this determination.
The great beauty of the representative system is, that it unites the advantages of popular control with the advantages arising from a division of labour.

Just as a physician understands medicine better than an ordinary man, just as a shoemaker makes shoes better than an ordinary man, so a person whose life is passed in transacting affairs of State becomes a better statesman than an ordinary man.

In politics, as well as every other department of life, the public ought to have the means of checking those who serve it.

If a man finds that he derives no benefit from the prescription of his physician, he calls in another.