John Morley: “Tolerance is far more than the abandonment of civil usurpations over conscience.”

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

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.