John Morley, 1. wicehrabia Morley cytaty

John Morley, 1. wicehrabia Morley of Blackburn OM – brytyjski polityk i literat, członek Partii Liberalnej, minister w rządach Williama Ewarta Gladstone’a, lorda Rosebery’ego, Henry’ego Campbella-Bannermana i Herberta Henry’ego Asquitha.

Wykształcenie odebrał w Cheltenham College, następnie na University College School oraz Lincoln College na Uniwersytecie Oksfordzkim. Uczelnię opuścił bez tytułu naukowego po kłótni z ojcem, który chciał, aby John poświęcił się karierze duchownej. Następnie Morley był redaktorem „Fortnightly Review” w latach 1867–1882 oraz „Pall Mall Gazette” w latach 1880–1883.

Karierę polityczną rozpoczął w 1883 r. jako liberalny członek Izby Gmin z okręgu Newcastle upon Tyne. W 1886 r. oraz w latach 1892–1895 był Głównym Sekretarzem Irlandii. Po wyborach 1895 r. utracił mandat parlamentarny. Do Izby Gmin powrócił już rok później, wygrywając wybory uzupełniające w okręgu Montrose Burghs. W kolejnych latach poświęcił się głównie pracy literackiej. Napisał szereg wytwornych szkiców, książki o Wolterze, Rousseau, Diderocie, Burkiem, Cromwellu itd., „Collected Works” .

Po powrocie liberałów do władzy w 1895 r. został ministrem ds. Indii. Za jego urzędowania pierwsi Hindusi weszli w skład Rady Indii oraz podjęto pierwsze kroki mające doprowadzić do przyznania Indiom samorządu. W 1908 r. Morley otrzymał tytuł 1. wicehrabiego Morley of Blackburn i zasiadł w Izbie Lordów. W latach 1910–1914 był Lordem Przewodniczącym Rady. W 1914 r. ustąpił ze stanowiska, będąc przeciwnikiem wojny z Niemcami.

Lord Morley zmarł w 1923 r. Od maja 1870 r. był żonaty z Rose Ayling, ale nie doczekał się potomstwa. Wraz z jego śmiercią wygasł tytuł parowski. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Grudzień 1838 – 23. Wrzesień 1923
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“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