John Morley: “No man wants so much sympathy,” he said, “as the chancellor of the exchequer, no man gets so little.”

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.

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.

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.