John Morley: “In their prosperity will be our strength, in their contentment our security, and in their gratitude our best reward.”

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

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.

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

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