John Morley: “They were steps towards the construction of a fabric of freedom and justice.”

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

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.

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