John Morley: “Gladstone had the signal distinction of creating the public opinion by which he worked, and warming the climate in which…”

They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.