John Morley: “A minority with these misgivings and more felt that the minister’s pregnant phrase about the government “having no moral…”

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

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.

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.

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.