John Morley: “They have ceased either to trust or to distrust liberty, and have come to the mind that it matters little either way.”

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

Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

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

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.