John Morley: “We will not be hurried into repression, any more than we will be hurried into the other direction.”

People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.

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

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…