John Morley: “We deeply lament the evils and misery which have been brought upon India by the acts of ambitious men, who have deceived…”

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

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

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

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.