John Morley: “If the Irish question rules all others, all he has to consider is whether he (properly flanked) can serve his view of…”

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.