John Morley: “It is really a case for hitting hard, but for hitting the right men.”

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.