John Morley: “It is so easy to write, but to write honestly nearly impossible.”

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

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.

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

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.