John Morley: “The policy itself, as well understood by Gordon as by everybody else, was untouched, and it was: to leave the Soudanese…”

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.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

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.