John Morley: “I am entirely in harmony with you as to your view of the eastern policy.”

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

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.

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

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.