John Morley: “Man, he used often to say, is the least comprehensible of creatures, and of men the most incomprehensible are the…”

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

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

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

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