And what is this smile of the world, to win which we are bidden to sacrifice our moral manhood; this frown of the world, whose terrors are more awful than the withering up of truth and the slow going out of light within the souls of us?

John Morley (1838-1923) English statesman, journalist, writer [John, Viscount Morley]

On Compromise, ch. 4 (1877)