John Morley: “Gladstone said; “ideals are never realised.” That is no reason, he meant, why men should not persist and toil and hope…”

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.

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

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.