John Morley: “I profess myself a disciple of Butler: the greatest of all enemies to extremes.”

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.

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.

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

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.