John Morley: “It is the height of folly to refuse to rally sensible people, because we do not satisfy Extremists.”

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

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

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.

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