Which would be the more flagrant sign of weakness--to go steadily on with your policy of reform in spite of bombs, or to let yourself openly be forced by bombs and murder clubs to drop your policy?
Morley poses a rhetorical question about the true sign of weakness in policy decisions under pressure.
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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.
Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
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