John Morley: “No agrarian movement in Ireland was ever so unstained by crime.”

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.

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

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.