John Morley: “If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical…”

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.

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

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.

We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.