John Morley: “Promising peace is as unwise as to threaten war.”

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.

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

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

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.