John Morley: “Either of these paths of folly leads to as great disaster as the other.”

People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.

They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…

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.

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