I threw overboard all my heavy armament and fought light.
John Morley: “I threw overboard all my heavy armament and fought light.”
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John Morley
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Morley uses a metaphor to describe a strategic shift in his approach to debate.
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If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
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.
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.





