John Morley: “The state, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions; if they be willing faithfully to serve it…”

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

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.