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It is not surely possible that he should decide policy, and that we should adopt and answer for it, even where it is in conflict with the announcements we have made in parliament.
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John Morley
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Morley argues against allowing military leaders to dictate policy, stressing the importance of parliamentary accountability.
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What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.
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.
Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
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