John Morley: “I have learnt that there is a wisdom in a policy of trust, and folly in a policy of mistrust.”

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

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.