"Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it—but there is."
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"We find ourselves, after these two years in power, in possession of perhaps the greatest majority our party has ever had, and with the general assent of the country. Now, how did we get there? It was …"
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