John Morley: “You design to withdraw your assistance when most urgently needed, at the moment of most conservative apprehension and…”

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

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

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

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.