John Morley: “Englishmen in Canada and Victoria do their best to injure our manufactures because they wish to nurse their own.”

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.

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.

But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.