John Morley: “For the thing contemplated is the very thing that the parliament was elected not to do.”

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

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

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

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.