John Morley: “Reform the House of Commons, AND DO IT THOROUGHLY THIS TIME.”

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.

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.