When will the House take courage and reform its procedure?” After all, the suspension of habeas corpus is a thing that men may well think it worth while to fight about, and a revolution in a country’s land-system might be expected to take up a good deal of time.
Morley emphasizes the importance of courage in parliamentary reform and the significance of issues like habeas corpus and land reform.
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Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
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For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
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