John Morley: “It is a curious proof of the way in which a free and open press has taken hold here, that the newspapers are ordinarily…”

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

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.

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.