John Morley: “If there be a fear abroad that England has forever abjured a resort to force other than moral force, is that fear…”

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

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