John Morley: “Ireland stands at your bar expectant, hopeful, almost suppliant.”

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…

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.

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

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