John Morley: “An immense loss of dignity in a great crisis of the empire would attend the forcing of our hands by the Irish or…”

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.

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

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.