John Morley: “Though he respected the writings of Rousseau and confessed his obligations to them, Turgot abhorred declamation.”

They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.