"To tell the truth I don't know myself what Tory Democracy is. But I believe it is principally opportunism."

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Remarks to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (14 April 1885), quoted in Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Gordon at Khartoum: Being a Personal Narrative of Events (1911), p. 414