John Morley: “Popular government is at the best difficult to work.”

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

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

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

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.