John Morley: “Promises of this kind, I said, stood on slippery ground, and must always be understood with the limits which might be…”

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.

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

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.

Individuals may recover from even serious sickness; it does not appear to be the way with governments.”—Mr.