John Morley: “I think I am doing the noble Lord no injustice in saying that, during his remarkable Vice-royalty, he did not accept the…”

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

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.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.