John Morley: “A tremendous revolution may overtake us, originating in a free Press.”

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

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.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

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