John Morley: “Self-government, when it was conceded, ought to have been conceded as part of a great policy of imperial consolidation.”

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.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.

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