[T]he central doctrine of Conservatism, that it is better to endure almost any political evil than to risk a breach of the historic continuity of gov… - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

[W]hen I am told that my ploughmen are capable citizens, it seems to me ridiculous to say that educated women are not just as capable. A good deal of the political battle of the future will be a conflict between religion and unbelief: & the women will in that controversy be on the right side.

On Tory principles the case presents much that is painful, but no perplexity whatever. Ireland must be kept, like India, at all hazards: by persuasion if possible; if not, by force.

There can be no finality in politics.