John Morley: “Franchise was the real question at stake, and to that branch of reform the bill was limited.”

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.

It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.