John Morley: “He was keen from the lessons of experience, to expose the ever indestructible fallacy that mighty armaments make for…”

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.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

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.

Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.