John Morley: “I don’t love him, but he was a mighty big fellow.”

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

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

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