John Morley: “We governed distant millions many times outnumbering ourselves.”

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.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

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