John Morley: “She asks a blessed oblivion of the past, and in that oblivion our interest is deeper even than hers.”

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

If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.

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

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