John Morley: “Gladstone (March 28, ’68): “The Irish establishment is a great wrong.”

The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

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