John Morley: “For us there is no excuse: there was no difficulty whatever in our doing our duty.”

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

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.