Ideal perfection is not the true basis of English legislation. We look at the attainable; we look at the practicable; and we have too much of English… - William Ewart Gladstone

We are not to judge individuals hastily on account of social mischiefs, that may be due to them as a body, through their holding of a position inherited from their forefathers, the whole nature of which they have not had strength and depth of wisdom to detect.

The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy.

I have had the honour to receive the resolutions passed at the meeting recently held in Willis's Rooms, which your lordship has been good enough to forward to me. I can assure your lordship that the subject of those resolutions is engaging the earnest attention of Her Majesty's Government, who will avail themselves of every opportunity for securing the suppression of slavery and the slave trade.