"A newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its p…"

"I think the best thing the Manchester Guardian has done in my time was to oppose the Boer War... We were together there."

"Free Trade in the sense in which we have always understood it is either a sound economic policy or it is not. Judging…"

"Truth like everything else should be economised."

"[He is] one of the heroes of the struggle, one of the ablest men they had and the most courageous Member who had ever…"

"[I am delighted] that my native city is honouring itself today by conferring its highest distinction upon the greates…"

"When C. P. Scott died, the innumerable tributes to him all emphasised his courage and integrity, his humanitarianism …"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"