I simply hold to the fact that, such as he is, the people chose him, and to the opinion that they have a right to choose whom they please.

When your English Press denies the _fact of the choice_ (a fact which the most passionate of party-men does not think of denying here), _I_ seem to have a right to another opinion which might strike you as unpatriotic if I uttered it in this place.

_Hic tacet_, then, rather _jacet_.
For the rest, for heaven's sake and the truth's, do let us try to take breath a little and be patient.

Let us wait till the dust of the struggle clears away before we take measures of the circus.

We can't have the liberty of a regular government under a dictatorship.