John Morley: “If not, was it reasonable that England should invite the arbitrators to judge the Alabama case according to one rule in…”

If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.