They make it day by day more difficult to maintain that most valuable characteristic of our history, which has always exhibited a good proportion of our great houses at the head of the liberal movement.
Morley laments the challenges faced in maintaining the historical leadership of great houses in the liberal movement.
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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.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
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