John Morley: “Her love of truth and wish to do right prevent all prejudices from effectually warping her.”

Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

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

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.