I fully admit this; I have stated it long ago in Midlothian — I hold it without the smallest doubt; if a time came when the British nation could think that the land ought to be nationalized, and that it were wise to do it, they have a perfect right to do it beyond all doubt and question.

— MR. GLADSTONE, Speech at Hawarden, September 23, 1889,

reported in the Times, September 24, 1889, p. 10, column 3.