John Morley: “To a certain extent this was the glorious mark of all the best minds of the epoch; from Voltaire downwards, they were…”

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

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

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

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.