They were horrible to him, horrible to be thought of, horrible to be expressed.

But the people required these measures, and therefore he carried them, arguing on their behalf with all the astuteness of a practised statesman.
That Sir Robert Peel should be a worshipper of expediency might be matter of small moment to any but his biographer, were it not that we are so prone to copy the example of those whose names are ever in our mouths.

It has now become the doctrine of a large class of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

Such a doctrine in politics is to be deplored; but alas! who can confine it to politics?
It creeps with gradual, but still with sure and quick motion, into all the doings of our daily life.

How shall the man who has taught himself that he may be false in the House of Commons, how shall he be true in the Treasury chambers?
or if false there, how true on the Exchange?
and if false there, how shall he longer have any truth within him?
And thus Alaric Tudor had become a rogue, and was obliged, as it were in his own defence, to consort with a rogue.