John Morley: “To have a vote is to have power; as Burke said, “liberty is power, when men act in bodies”; but the secret vote is power…”

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.

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

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

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.