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The new problem for statesmen will be not how the Queen's Government may be carried on, but how the National Will may be most promptly executed.

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

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The intelligence is not free in the presence of a mortal fear lest its conclusions should trouble soft tranquillity of spirit.

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Define it as we may, faith in Progress has been the mainspring of Liberalism in all its schools and branches.

The political spirit is the great force in throwing love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.

On Compromise (1908)

Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man.

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

Rousseau (1876)

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