John Morley: “He desired nothing so much, he said, as that entire goodwill should prevail between Great Britain and the United States…”

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

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.

We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.