John Morley: “But any government now to be formed cannot be wholly a continuation, it must be in some degree a new commencement.”

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.

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.