The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

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

What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.

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