John Morley: “The true alternatives were to try either a fresh parliament or a fresh ministry.”

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

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

Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.

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.