Wars Have Ever Been But Another Aristocratic

I Confess That For Fifteen Years My Efforts In Education, And My Hopes Of Success In Establishing A System Of National Education, Have Always Been Associated With The Idea Of Coupling The Education Of This Country With The Religious Communities Which Exist.

Let It Never Be Forgotten That It Is Not By Means Of War That States Are Rendered Fit For The Enjoyment Of Constitutional Freedom; On The Contrary, Whilst Terror And Bloodshed Reign In The Land, Involving Men's Minds In The Extremities Of Hopes And Fears, There Can Be No Process Of Thought, No Education Going On, By Which Alone Can A People Be Prepared For The Enjoyment Of Rational Liberty.

The Twelve Or Fifteen Millions In The British Empire, Who, While They Possess No Electoral Rights, Are Yet Persuaded They Are Freemen, And Who Are Mystified Into The Notion That They Are Not Political Bondmen, By That Great Juggle Of The ' English Constitution ' A Thing Of Monopolies, And Church-craft, And Sinecures, Armorial Hocus-pocus, Primogeniture, And Pageantry!

I Took The Repeal Of The Corn Laws As Light Amusement Compared With The Difficult Task Of Inducing The Priests Of All Denominations To Agree To Suffer The People To Be Educated.

I've Seen The Smiling Of Fortune Beguiling, I've Felt All Its Favours And Found Its Decay; Sweet Was Its Blessing, Kind Its Caressing, But Now It Is Fled, Fled Far, Far Away.