John Morley: “Free institutions and self-government under British rule would be an impossibility.”

They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.

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.

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

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.