John Morley: “Effects like these, not purple passages, not epigrams nor aphorisms, are the test of oratory.”

Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.

It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.

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.