John Morley: “A single word spoken in disparagement of our intelligence is enough to make us irreconcilable, and yet how often have we…”

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

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.

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.