John Morley: “Every one knew him to be good, but I had no idea of the extent and height of his goodness, and his boundless power and…”

For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.

It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.

If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.