John Morley: “My own opinion is that it is harder to justify our doing so much to rescue him, than our not doing more.”

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

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