John Morley: “One should take care lest in quenching the spirit of Midlothian, we leave sovereign mastery of the world to Machiavelli.”

If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

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

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.