Gladstone himself used to say, it could be the duty of any party leader to take into his hands the intolerable burden of exercising the rigours of inquisition and private censorship over every man with whom what he judged the highest public expediency might draw him to co-operate.
Morley reflects on the responsibilities of a party leader in maintaining public order and discretion.
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The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.
I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.
Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
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