John Morley: “It may be that my hostility to the rebel party, looking at their conduct since your government was formed six years ago…”

They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.