John Morley: “Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.”

I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.

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

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

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.