No statesman in our history has ever been more careful of the golden rule of political strategy—to neglect of which Frederick the Great traced the failure of Joseph II.—not to take the second step before you have taken the first.
Morley emphasizes the importance of strategic political timing, referencing Frederick the Great's insights on leadership.
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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.
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.
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
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