John Morley: “His Thoughts on the Discontents is a masterpiece of civil wisdom, and the right defence in a great constitutional…”

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.

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

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

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.