John Morley: “The Seven Years' War is in fact a turning point in our national history, as it is a turning point in the history of the…”

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?