The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

the gallows, something must be wrong in the system of government.
‘The Rights of Man’ pt. 2 (1792)
I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at
all. It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree.
‘The Rights of Man’ pt. 2 (1792)
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
‘The Rights of Man’ pt. 2 (1792) ch. 5
A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.
Eric Foner ‘Tom Paine and Revolutionary America’ (1976) ch. 7
4.4 Josè de Palafox 1780-1847
War to the knife.
On 4 August 1808, at the siege of Saragossa, the French general Verdier sent a one-word suggestion:
‘Capitulation’. Palafox replied ‘Guerra y cuchillo [War and the knife]’, later reported as ‘Guerra a cuchillo’,
as above. It subsequently appeared, at the behest of Palafox himself, on survivors’ medals. Josè Gómez de
Arteche y Moro ‘Guerra de la Independencia’ (1875) vol. 2, ch. 4.
4.5 William Paley 1743-1805
Who can refute a sneer?
‘Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy’ (1785) bk. 5, ch. 9
4.6 Michael Palin 1943—
See Graham Chapman et al. (3.74) in Volume I
4.7 Lord Palmerston 1784-1865
We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and
perpetual and these interests it is our duty to follow.
Speech on the Polish Question in the House of Commons, 1848
I therefore fearlessly challenge the verdict which this House...is to give...whether, as the
Roman, in days of old, held himself free from indignity, when he could say Civis Romanus sum;
so also a British subject, in whatever land he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye
and the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong.
House of Commons, 25 June 1850, in the Don Pacifico debate.
You may call it coalition, you may call it the accidental and fortuitous concurrence of atoms.
On a projected Palmerston-Disraeli coalition. House of Commons, 5 March 1857
We do not want Egypt any more than any rational man with an estate in the north of England
and a residence in the south, would have wished to possess the inns on the north road. All he
could want would have been that the inns should be well kept, always accessible, and furnishing
him, when he came, with mutton chops and post horses.
Letter to Earl Cowley, 25 November 1859, in Hon. Evelyn Ashley ‘Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount
Palmerston 1846-65’ (1876) vol. 2, p. 1245