What we have to do is to clear away the obvious lies and superstitions that hold a great part of the people in a degrading bondage.

Our need is of statesmen who are bold enough and strong enough to cast off the restraints of party, of imbecile fears, of words that answer to no reality, and legislate with honest zeal for the general good.

How many men are there in Parliament who represent anything more respectable than the interest of a trade, or a faction, or their own bloated person ?" "This would rouse the echoes in an East-end club," interposed Glazzard, with an air of good-humoured jesting.
"The difference is, my dear fellow, that it is given as an honest opinion in a private dining-room.

There's Welwyn-Baker now--thick-headed old jackass!--what right has _he_ to be sitting in a national assembly?
Call himself what he may, it's clearly our business to get rid of _him_.

There's something infuriating in the thought that such a man can give his hee-haw for or against a proposal that concerns the nation.