John Morley: “Now, in the first place, it is sometimes necessary in politics to make surrenders of what, if not surrendered, will be…”

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.

My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.

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.

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.