John Morley: “I never knew anybody less guilty of the tiresome sin of arguing for victory.”

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

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

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

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.