The great political speech, which for that matter is a sort of drama, is not made by passages for elegant extract or anthologies, but by personality, movement, climax, spectacle, and the action of the time.
Morley describes the essence of a great political speech, emphasizing its dynamic and dramatic nature over mere literary elegance.
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It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.
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