John Morley: “What do you suppose that all your parchments and your treaties signify to me?”

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

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

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.