Never let it be forgotten that there is scarcely a single moral action of a single man of which other men can have such a knowledge, in its ultimate grounds, its surrounding incidents, and the real determining causes of its merits, as to warrant their pronouncing a conclusive judgment upon it.
Morley emphasizes the complexity of moral judgments and the limitations of human understanding in assessing actions.
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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 we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.
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