From ‘The National Government‘, The Spectator, 29 May 1915:
We have got our backs to the wall. There is no alternative to the present Ministry. If they fail us, there is nothing left. This thought should not lead to dread or anxiety, but to the very opposite. They are Englishmen, and they are not going to fail us. They are going to succeed. Each man knows that he is taking not only his own political life in his hands, but the life of the country, and that if he allows personal feeling, personal ambition, indolence, want of nerve, or failure to take responsibility to ruin the cause, he will be thrice accursed, and that he can never be forgiven for his offence. The country is not, of course, going to be unjust to its servants, or to expect miracles from them.
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