John Morley: “Every consideration which prompted our pledges, prompts the…”

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Every consideration which prompted our pledges, prompts the recognition of them, and their extension, rather than curtailment.

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John Morley

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Morley advocates for the fulfillment and expansion of political pledges rather than their reduction.

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

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.

Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

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John Morley: “Every consideration which prompted our pledges, prompts the recognition of them, and their extension, rather than…”