John Morley: “Gladstone’s constant principle, endeavoured to turn the question from being purely Anglo-French, into an international…”

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

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

What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.

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