John Morley: “It is the growth of population at home, as a result of our vast extension of manufactures, that makes our colonies both…”

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

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.

What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.

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.