John Morley: “It does not come easy, in west or east, to like foreign rule.”

Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

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.