John Morley: “You have the power in your own hands if you will only exert it.”

What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.

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.