John Morley: “Yet it is the influence of good opinion, tardy, halting, stumbling, and broken, as it must ever be, that upholds and…”

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

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.