For have not modern times established a sisterhood of nations, equal, independent, each of them built up under the legitimate defence which public law affords to every nation living within its own borders, and seeking to perform its own affairs?
Morley advocates for the recognition of nations as equal and independent entities, emphasizing the importance of public law.
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Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
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.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
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