John Morley: “If we cannot rule ourselves, we can at least cause them to be ruled as we choose.”

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.

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.

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