"He was a leading Liberal, certainly. It had been said by a great statesman in the old days that he did not care who made the laws so long as he could make the ballads. In the last century the accents of freedom were heard in Scotland in the ballads of Burns. "Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled" and "A man's a man for a' that" were regarded as almost revolutionary in the days when he wrote."
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William Harcourt, speech to the banquet of the Liberal Club in Derby (25 January 1894), quoted in The Times (26 January 1894), p. 8
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