John Morley: “In adopting it as a rule, we are not realising perfection, but bowing to an imperfection.”

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.

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

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

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