[I]t will not do to act as if the moral question was not the supreme question in public life, and, in a sense, the vera causa of party conflict.

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[I]t will not do to act as if the moral question was not the supreme question in public life, and, in a sense, the vera causa of party conflict.

Letter to William Ewart Gladstone (21 November 1891), quoted in J. N. Figgis and R. V. Laurence (eds.), Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton, Vol. I (1917), p. 257