John Morley: “At least it saved us from the insanity of a war that would have intensified European confusion, merely to maintain…”

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

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.

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

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