John Morley: “My wish is as regards Ireland, in this hour of her peril and her hope, to leave nothing undone by which to give heart…”

We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.

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.