Quote#Freedom
He betrayed the trust reposed in him & used his military &…
Quote byWilliam Morris · 1834–1896
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: On General Gordon, Letter to James Mavor, April 1885. Quoted in Fergus Nicoll, Gladstone, Gordon and the Sudan Wars: The Battle Over Imperial Invention in the Victorian Age (Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books, 2020).
English (original)
He betrayed the trust reposed in him & used his military & administrative capacity for the purpose of bringing the Soudanese under the subjection of a vile tyranny. To make a hero of such a man is a direct attack on public morality.
— William Morris
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