John Morley: “From the point of party strategy, the policy of this great statute was fatal.”

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

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