John Morley: “Is any Power at this time of day warranted in assuming this comprehensive obligation?”

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

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 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.