Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

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John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, for the Liberal Party in 1883.

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Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.

John Morley

British statesman, writer and journalist (1838-1923)

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

John Morley

British statesman, writer and journalist (1838-1923)

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

John Morley

British statesman, writer and journalist (1838-1923)

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

John Morley

British statesman, writer and journalist (1838-1923)

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

John Morley

British statesman, writer and journalist (1838-1923)

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

John Morley

British statesman, writer and journalist (1838-1923)

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

John Morley

British statesman, writer and journalist (1838-1923)

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

John Morley

British statesman, writer and journalist (1838-1923)

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

John Morley

British statesman, writer and journalist (1838-1923)

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

John Morley

British statesman, writer and journalist (1838-1923)

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

John Morley

British statesman, writer and journalist (1838-1923)

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Morley

British statesman, writer and journalist (1838-1923)

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

John Morley

British statesman, writer and journalist (1838-1923)

He who hates vice hates men.

John Morley

British statesman, writer and journalist (1838-1923)

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

John Morley

British statesman, writer and journalist (1838-1923)