John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn idézet

John Morley angol író és politikus. Kezdetben újságíró volt Észak-Angliában. Oxfordban tanult és több évig a Literary Gazette-et szerkesztette, 1867-1882-ben pedig a Fortnightly Review szerkesztője volt; ekkori tanulmányait Critical miscellanies címen kiadta. Írt több monográfiát: Edmund Burke ; Voltaire ; Rousseau ; English men of letters ; Life of Richard Cobden ; Walpole stb.

Mint radikális politikus 1880-ban átvette a Pall Mall Gazette szerkesztését, de 1883-ban, amikor képviselőnek választották, lemondott; Gladstone kabinetjében kétszer volt írországi államtitkár és ezt az állását a Roseberry-minisztériumban is megtartotta, majd 1880 és 1883 között az újonnan liberális irányultságú Pall Mall Gazette szerkesztője lett. 1883-ban képviselővé választották a Liberális Párt színeiben. 1886-ban és 1892 és 1895 között Írországért felelős államtitkár, 1905 és 1910 között, majd 1911-ben Indiaügyi államtitkár, 1910 és 1914 között pedig Lord President of the Council volt.

Morley kiváló politikai kommentátor volt, és William Gladstone-nak életrajzírója. Morley leginkább írásairól és arról ismert, hogy a „tizenkilencedik század nagy liberálisai közül az utolsónak számított”. Ellenezte az imperializmust és a második búr háborút. Támogatta az írországi önkormányzatok megalakítását . Az első világháborúba való brit belépés után 1914 augusztusában kilépett a kormányból. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. december 1838 – 23. szeptember 1923
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John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn: Idézetek angolul

“You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.”

Rousseau http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14052/14052-h/14052-h.htm (1876)

“There is a loud cry in these days for clues that shall guide the plain man through the vast bewildering labyrinth of printed volumes.”

Mr. Morley at Edinburgh: Aphorisms: an address delivered before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, November 11 1887, p. 3 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044079640421;view=1up;seq=11 (Macmillan, 1887)

“Evolution is not a force but a process; not a cause but a law.”

On Compromise http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11557/11557-h/11557-h.htm (1874).

“It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.”

Rousseau http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14052/14052-h/14052-h.htm (1876)

“You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.”

On Compromise http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11557/11557-h/11557-h.htm (1874).

“Some think that we are approaching a critical moment in the history of Liberalism…We hear of a divergence of old Liberalism and new…The terrible new school, we hear, are for beginning operations by dethroning Gladstonian finance. They are for laying hands on the sacred ark. But did any one suppose that the fiscal structure which was reared in 1853 was to last for ever, incapable of improvement, and guaranteed to need no repair? We can all of us recall, at any rate, one very memorable admission that the great system of Gladstonian finance had not reached perfection. That admission was made by no other person than Mr. Gladstone himself in his famous manifesto of 1874, when he promised the most extraordinary reduction of which our taxation is capable. Surely there is as much room for improvement in taxation as in every other work of fallible man, provided that we always cherish the just and sacred principle of taxation that it is equality of private sacrifice for public good. Another heresy is imputed to this new school which fixes a deep gulf between the wicked new Liberals and the virtuous old. We are adjured to try freedom first before we try interference of the State. That is a captivating formula, but it puzzles me to find that the eminent statesman who urges us to lay this lesson to heart is strongly in favour of maintaining the control of the State over the Church? But is State interference an innovation? I thought that for 30 years past Liberals had been as much in favour as other people of this protective legislation. Are to we assume that it has all been wrong? Is my right hon. friend going to propose its repeal or the repeal of any of it; or has all past interference been wise, and we have now come to the exact point where not another step can be taken without mischief? …other countries have tried freedom and it is just because we have decided that freedom in such a case is only a fine name for neglect, and have tried State supervision, that we have saved our industrial population from the waste, destruction, destitution, and degradation that would otherwise have overtaken them…In short, gentlemen, I am not prepared to allow that the Liberty and the Property Defence League are the only people with a real grasp of Liberal principles, that Lord Bramwell and the Earl of Wemyss are the only Abdiels of the Liberal Party.”

Annual presidential address to the Junior Liberal Association of Glasgow (10 February 1885), quoted in 'Mr. John Morley At Glasgow', The Times (11 February 1885), p. 10.

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

Voltaire http://books.google.com/books?id=bGFBAAAAYAAJ&q="Where+it+is+a+duty+to+worship+the+sun+it+is+pretty+sure+to+be+a+crime+to+examine+the+laws+of+heat"&pg=PA14#v=onepage (1871).

“I am, and always have been, a pretty strong individualist.”

Speech in the House of Lords (29 November 1909), quoted in The Times (30 November 1909), p. 6
1900s

“I have often thought that Strafford was an ideal type, both for governor of Ireland in the 17th century, and governor of India in the 20th century.”

Letter to Lord Minto (19 September 1907), quoted in D. A. Hamer, Lord Morley: Liberal Intellectual in Politics (1968), p. 56
1900s

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