John Morley: “Everybody knew that the state of university education in Ireland stood in the front rank of unsettled questions.”

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

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.

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