John Morley: “The resurrection of Italy could only be vindicated on principles of liberty and the right of a nation to choose its own…”

It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.

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

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.

We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.