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John Morley


Born
in Blackburn, Lancashire, England
December 24, 1838

Died
September 23, 1923

Genre
History, Politics


John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM, PC was an English Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially a journalist, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1883. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1886 and between 1892 and 1895, Secretary of State for India between 1905 and 1910 and again in 1911 and Lord President of the Council between 1910 and 1914. Morley was a distinguished political commentator, and biographer of his hero, William Gladstone. Morley is best known for his writings and for his "reputation as the last of the great nineteenth-century Liberals". He opposed imperialism, the Boer War, and British entry into the First World War in 1914.

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On Compromise
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“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”
― John Morley, On Compromise
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“Nature, it her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man”
― John Morley (Viscount Morley)
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“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
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