John Morley: “Self-seeking, pride, domination, power—all these passions are gratified in politics.”

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.

I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.