"I believe that Liberalism is the principle in politics that neither class, nor creed, nor privilege shall hinder the …"

"[The British Empire is] the greatest secular agency for good now known to mankind."

"...that new spirit which is passing from municipal into Imperial politics, which aims more at the improvement of the …"

"There are two supreme pleasures in life. One is ideal, the other real. The ideal is when a man receives the seals of …"

"It is always possible that that may happen here which has happened in Belgium—the elimination of Liberalism, le…"

"It is beginning to be hinted that we are a nation of amateurs."

"...what would be most extraordinary is this, that anybody who considered the state of the Liberal party then [1896] a…"

"The nation which is satisfied is lost. The nation which is not progressive is retrograding. "Rest and be thankful" is…"

"...what is the advice I have to offer you? the first head is this, that you have to clean your slate. (Cheers.) It is…"

"For it was not a union such as bound torn Poland to Russia, or uncrowned Venice to Austria. Such unions may enlarge a…"