John Morley: “There is one proposition which the experience of life burns into my soul; it is this, that man should beware of letting…”

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?