John Morley: “No man among my subjects has been favoured, molested, or disquieted, by reason of his religious belief or worship.”

If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

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