For the thing contemplated is the very thing that the parliament was elected not to do.

Agrarian customs developed that undoubtedly belong to a backward social system, but they sprang from the necessities of the case.

It is very desirable to prevent the using of augmentation of rent as a method of eviction.

It would be almost a crime in a minister to omit anything that might serve to mark, and bring home to the minds of men, the gravity of the occasion.

If the Belgian people desire, on their own account, to join France or any other country, I for one will be no party to taking up arms to prevent it.

Secrecy saps the citizen’s courage, promotes evasion, tempts to downright lying.

Experience showed that without secrecy in its exercise the suffrage was not free.

Its greatest favourers love it better in the abstract than in the substance.

It is my view (but this is quite another matter) that they lie cast aside, a dishonoured carcass, which no amount of force, fraud, or folly can again galvanise into life.

Thank God that up to a certain point the indications on this great controversy are decidedly favourable.

The award, though hardly a surprise, still inflicted a lively twinge of mortification on the masterful and confident people of this island.

The fitness of an absentee parliament to govern Ireland was again to be tested.

Disraeli said he was prepared to form an administration which he believed would carry on her Majesty’s affairs with efficiency, and would possess her confidence; but he could not undertake to carry on her Majesty’s government in the…

For us it was absolutely necessary to show that we did not consider return, as we had not considered resignation, a light matter.

And I believe that in the present state of opinion they would gain their end by something like the old game of playing redistribution against the franchise....

My object and desire has ever been and still is, to keep the church of England together, both as a church and as an establishment.

All that I hear from day to day convinces me of the extension of this strange epidemic, for it is not, considering how it comes, worthy of being called a rational or scientific process.

Be it however, what it may, we politicians are children playing with toys in comparison to that great work of and for manhood, which has to be done, and will yet be done, in restoring belief.

Try to do your Duty and you will find what you are fit for.

If England were to enter into a righteous war, her resources were inexhaustible.

These things are not without meaning.” Men who commonly stood aside from political activity were roused.

For us there is no excuse: there was no difficulty whatever in our doing our duty.

I value our insular position, but I dread the day when we shall be reduced to a moral insularity....

In causa facili cuivis licet esse disertum, Et minimae vires frangere quassa valent; Subruere est arces et stantia moenia virtus.

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