John Morley: “The British fleet, lawfully present in the waters of Alexandria, had the right and duty of self-defence.”

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

If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.

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

People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.