John Morley: “A divided liberal party and a weak conservative party mean the supremacy of the revolutionary Irish....”

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

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

Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.

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