John Morley: “Protests against use of Indian troops in Europe without consent of parliament.”

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

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

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

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.