Political Quotes

John Morley: I affirm with profound conviction that this movement of nationalities has attained in Italy, in Hungary, in Vienna, in a…

On the record
I affirm with profound conviction that this movement of nationalities has attained in Italy, in Hungary, in Vienna, in a great part of Germany, and in some of the Slavonian populations, a degree of importance that must at no distant period produce decisive results....
Said by
John Morley

Editor's note · Context

Morley expresses strong belief in the significance of national movements across Europe and their potential impact.

Share

More from John Morley

But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.

gutenberg.org

It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.

gutenberg.org

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

gutenberg.org

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation