Truth like everything else should be economised. - C. P. Scott

Free Trade in the sense in which we have always understood it is either a sound economic policy or it is not. Judging by results in national prosperity I should have thought it would take a lot of disproving, but the Tories are ready to play fast and lose with it and some of our own people who ought to know far better seem ready to back them up. If there is any future for the Liberal party it surely rests on the rock of Free Trade.

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

Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.