John Morley: “Rash experiment in politics has been defined as raising grave issues without grave cause.”

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

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

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.

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.