The chancellor of the exchequer,” he said, “should boldly uphold economy in detail; and it is the mark of a chicken-hearted chancellor when he shrinks from upholding economy in detail, when because it is a question of only two or three thousand pounds, he says that is no matter.
Morley critiques the lack of courage in financial leadership regarding detailed economic management.
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But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
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