I always hold that politicians are the men whom, as a rule, it is most difficult to comprehend, i.e. understand completely; and for my own part, I never have thus understood, or thought I understood, above one or two, though here and there I may get hold of an isolated idea about others.
Morley shares his belief that understanding politicians is inherently difficult, revealing his own struggles with comprehension.
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I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.
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.
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