Aristocracy, democracy, are not vain doctrines for us to dispute about; they are powers; you neither exalt them nor depress them by praise or by blame; before we talk of them, they exist or they do not exist.
Morley reflects on the enduring nature of political ideologies like aristocracy and democracy.
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There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.
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