John Morley: “The truth is that we’re both chained to the oar; I am chained to the oar; you are chained.”

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

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.

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.