But in and during the process which led up to this transaction on Saturday, my action has been in the strictest sense sole, and it has required me in circumstances partly known to harden my heart into a flint.
Morley reflects on the emotional toll of making difficult decisions in public life.
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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?
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
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