John Morley: “How were the judges authorised to affirm that the Land bill of 1881 had not been a great cause in mitigating the…”

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.