It is clear enough that the traditional Palmerstonian policy [of British support for Ottoman territorial integrity] is at an end. - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

I earnestly hope that the House of Lords will always continue to justify your confidence; that it will conscientiously and firmly fulfil the duties for which I think it is eminently fitted, and which are to represent the permanent and enduring wishes of the nation as opposed to the casual impulses which some passing victory at the polls may in some circumstances have given to the decisions of the other House.

[I]f our ancestors had cared for the rights of other people, the British empire would not have been made.

It was time to put a stop to the growing idea that England ought to pay tribute to India as a kind of apology for having conquered her: & you have done it effectively.