John Morley: “I have in truth thought it my duty without in the least committing myself or any one else, to think through the subject…”

The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.

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.

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

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?