John Morley: “Next to Lord Aberdeen, I think Sir Robert Peel was the most just of the just men I have had the happiness to know.”

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

My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?