26 NOVEMBER 1954, page 7

Lord Macaulay Writes An Epilogue To His History

Among the statesmen of his time Churchill was, in genius, the first. His intellect was fertile, daring and capacious. His careful and animated eloquence, set off by the defiant......

Lu Rd Beaconsfield I See That It Is Counted A Matter

for jest that I should come here this afternoon to honour the descendant of a Whig. He was, I would remind you, no common Whig, if there were ever such a creature. No other......

Mr. W. E. Gladstone

There were other days when England forsook the cause of freedom, when the eyes of the oppressed and the humbled were turned in vain to this favourite, this darling home of so......

Winston Churchill: The Tribute Of His Peers

The Earl of Chatham There are gentlemen who bring forward their accusations of inconsistency against this man. Let us talk not of consistency as if it were a virtue. I boast a......

Charles James Fox

We have heard the grievance that this man has not loved G ant'. A grievance—as though it were a fault in him ! racious God, Sir, is honour now a crime ? Is courage to be counted......