Political Quotes

John Morley: “By dint of what, after all, might be called threat of resignation, I have got the navy estimates a little down, and I am…”

On the record
By dint of what, after all, might be called threat of resignation, I have got the navy estimates a little down, and I am now in the battle about the army.
Said by
John Morley

Editor's note · Context

Morley discusses his efforts to negotiate the navy estimates amidst political struggles.

Share

More from John Morley

Can wool repair The colours that it lost when soaked with dye?

gutenberg.org

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

gutenberg.org

A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.

gutenberg.org

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

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation