John Morley: “I hear no challenges upon that statement, for I think it is generally and deeply felt that without the agitation the…”

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

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

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

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.