But the government, it must be admitted, bowled us over by the force of the phrase; and made it our next duty to bowl them over by bringing the reality of the bill into correspondence with its great profession.
Morley acknowledges the government's rhetorical power and the need for his party to align reality with their promises.
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True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
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.
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