John Morley: “His death will make an echo through the world, which in its entireness he has served so well.”

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

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.

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.