John Morley: “The foundations of human character are much the same in all historic ages, and every public crisis brings out the same…”

I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

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