John Morley: “The Government are bound, whatever you may do among yourselves, strictly, and I will even say sternly, to insist on…”

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.

What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.

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.

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.