John Morley: “The only point on which there was a vital difference was the figure of the borough franchise.”

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

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

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

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