John Morley: “If we agree on a good plan, it must come to good, whether we succeed…”

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If we agree on a good plan, it must come to good, whether we succeed or fail with it.

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John Morley

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Morley believes that a well-agreed plan will yield positive results regardless of the outcome.

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This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

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John Morley: “If we agree on a good plan, it must come to good, whether we succeed or fail with it.”