John Morley: “The very reason that justified the policy commanded expedition.”

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.

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

My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.

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.