John Morley: “I am sorry that Hartington the other day used the word compromise, a word which has never passed my lips, though I…”

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.

My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.