When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
George Savile

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
George Savile

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
George Savile

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
George Savile

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
George Savile

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
George Savile

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
George Savile

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
George Savile