John Morley: “This was the more remarkable from the prevailing laxity of opinion upon this particular subject, perhaps the worst…”

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

It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.

A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.

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