John Morley: “By clause 87 of the Act it is provided that no person, by reason of his birth, creed, or colour, shall be disqualified…”

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

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

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

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