John Morley: “Nothing else can possibly absolve them from their presumptive obligation as standing at the head of the party which for…”

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.

What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.