There Seem To Me To Be Very

Public Opinion Is A Compound Of Folly, Weakness, Prejudice, Wrong Feeling, Right Feeling, Obstinacy, And Newspaper Paragraphs.

No Minister Ever Stood, Or Could Stand, Against Public Opinion.

However Much I Have Been Blamed For Not Showing More Deferences To A Great Party, And For Not Acting More Steadily On Party Principles, All I Have To Regret Is That I Showed So Much.

But After This Natural Burst Of Indignation, No Man Of Sense, Courage, Or Prudence Will Waste His Time Or His Strength In Retrospective Reproaches Or Repinings.

My Belief Is, From All That I Have Seen Of The French People And Their Government, That They Are Much More Likely To Presume Upon Our Weakness Than To Take Offence At Our Strength.