John Morley: “The other school, while not neglecting efficiency, looks also to what is called political concession.”

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

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.

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.

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.