John Morley: “Fool’d with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay.”

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.