John Morley: “The truth is that ultramontanism is an anti-social power, and never has it more undisguisedly assumed that character…”

What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

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

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.