William Gladstone

“ I do not wonder that a smile of incredulity passes over the lips of honourable gentlemen. It ought to do so. It would be wrong that in this age and in this part of the world one should be too ready to believe that such things could take place. ”

“ The document does not state the offence. My case is that they were offences that had been tried and judged not by Italian juries but by Italian judges; not persons of opulence and station, like those of this country, but receiving pittances not sufficient for a moderate livelihood, and holding those pittances at the absolute will of the Crown. The duke of Modena said, "I see that these sentences expire within the year, and therefore I decree that the imprisonment of the whole shall be prolonged until the parties shall individually give satisfactory proofs of reformation." ”

“ Wherefore we exhort him, as well as all the professors, to continue always in this salutary path of reducing more and more the number of those who are to be admitted to the faculties and philosophy, and particularly to the faculty of law, which still continues in excess. ”