John Morley: “Without our lifting a finger, a crumbling process has begun in both the opposite parties.”

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

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

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.

I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.