John Morley: “I vaguely feel that this journey is a plunge out of an atmosphere of peace into an element of disturbance.”

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

The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.