John Morley: “To talk of public discussion in connection with mischief of that kind is really pushing things intolerably far.”

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

If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.

A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.

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.