John Morley: “You say truly that Oxford has failed to enlarge itself to the progress of the country.”

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

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