John Morley: “It is this that gives William Pitt so unique a position among our statesmen.”

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.

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.

Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.

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