There are two sorts of mistaken people in the world: those who always think that something could and ought to have been done to prevent disaster, and those who always think that nothing could have been done.
Morley categorizes two types of people regarding disaster prevention, emphasizing differing perspectives on responsibility.
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We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.
I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
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