John Morley: “It was a budget of peace, and peace wanted it.”

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 they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.

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.