Daniel Webster

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.

Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.