John Morley: “Not proven was treated as only an evasive form of guilty.”

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

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.

I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.