John Morley: “Those who substitute words for things, and verbal plausibilities for the observation of experience, could prolong these…”

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

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.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.