John Morley: “You do not know how those of us regard you, who feel it a joy to live when a premier believes in righteousness.”

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

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

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

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?