John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

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

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

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

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

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

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other.

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

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

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

There are some books which cannot be adequately reviewed for twenty or thirty years after they come out.

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost.

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

Excess of severity is not the path to order. On the contrary, it is the path to the bomb.

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn