They prefer that to all the considerations connected with the great issue before them, and their minds in fact are of such a mean and degraded order, that they can only be acted upon, not by motives of honour and duty, but simply by those of selfishness and personal interest.
Morley condemns the self-serving nature of certain politicians, suggesting they are driven by selfish interests rather than noble ideals.
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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.
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