If we are to have democracy, as I suppose we are, let us go into it with our eyes open.

I don't like drifting among cataracts, hiding the reality from ourselves by forms which are not allowed either sense or power.

That I suppose to be Lord Salisbury's feeling.

I greatly admired his speech in Cannon Street, which reminded me of a talk I had with him long ago at Hatfield.

If the result is a change in the Constitution of the House of Lords which will make it a real power, no one will be more sorry than Chamberlain, whose own wish is to keep it in the condition of ornamental helplessness.