John Morley: “Political suicide is not easy to a man with energy and resolution, but…”

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Political suicide is not easy to a man with energy and resolution, but this was one of the rare cases.

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John Morley

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Morley reflects on the challenges of political decision-making, emphasizing the difficulty of political suicide for determined individuals.

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Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

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John Morley: “Political suicide is not easy to a man with energy and resolution, but this was one of the rare cases.”