John Morley: “Every one of these Acts was in the interest of the landlord and against the tenant.”

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

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

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

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.