Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of RoseberyLord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery