John Morley: “The conservative party will never assume its natural position until Disraeli retires; and I sometimes think he and I…”

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.

If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.