John Morley: “Yet household suffrage at this very time had immensely increased the moral strength of the House of Commons.”

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?

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

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.