Who said “Nations, like men, have their infancy.”?

“England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.”

“I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.”

“How can you govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?”

“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”

“France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.”

“Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.”

“The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.”

“We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.”

“Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.”

“The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.”

“Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.”