John Morley: “The revival of the analogy of imperial Rome for the guidance of British policy he held up as fundamentally unsound and…”

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

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.

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

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.