John Morley: “But I do not believe that God’s tender mercies are restricted to a small portion of the human family.”

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

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

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

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