John Morley: “Only a government can do it, and a tory government can do it more easily and safely than any other.”

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.

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

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