John Morley: “Gladstone wound up his labours in parliament with an extraordinarily powerful survey of all these great transactions.”

What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.

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

What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.

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