John Morley: “But of the extent of the mischief I do not doubt any more than of its virulence.”

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 would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.

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

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.