PARLIAMENT AND THE BUDGET, 1960-61
“The battle between free trade and protection, ending in a revolution of our commercial system, had awakened men to the enormous truth,—that budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of the prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes, and the strength of kingdoms.” John Morle The Life of W. E. Gladstone. Macmillan, London (1905), Vol. 1, 451.: