John Morley: “There is no doubt at all that all the evils, of whatever kind, at which they were aimed, exist at this moment among us…”

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

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.