The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries... [in producing] a long habit of submission... [and in] enfeebl[ing] by corrupting those who should assail them.

England is the Mother of Parliaments

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves