[…] they contrive to make all approaches to them difficult and vexatious, and imagine that they aggrandize themselves by wasting the time of others in useless attendance, by mortifying them with slights, and teazing them with affronts.

In the postscript or the forescript of Mr. Balfour's address he said, 'Vote for A. J. Balfour and peace with all the world.' (Laughter.) That was not exactly the phrase that he should pick out as fitted for the tombstone of the late Government.

Due to pluralism and conflicts within the good itself, such perfection, for Berlin, is not possible. A compromise does not brin us closer to a higher telos in history.

Johnstone of that ilk = Johnstone from Johnstone