Who said “And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and…”?

“Every hero becomes a bore at last.”

“You cannot be a hero without being a coward.”

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

“The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.”

“Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.”

“Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.”

“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”

“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”

“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”

“The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”

“There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles II. But the seamen were not gentlemen, and the gentlemen were not seamen.”