John Morley: “They ought to know that ideals in politics are never realised.”

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

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

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.