It was obvious to me that I could not create a precedent of deviation from a course undeviatingly pursued by my predecessors of all parties, without satisfying myself that a new form of proceeding would be reasonable and safe.
Morley reflects on the importance of adhering to established precedents in governance.
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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.
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.
People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
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