Obedience to the laws was very properly regarded as a principal source of improvement. He admitted that no country could be tranquil or prosperous, w… - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville

We in truth formed our opinions on the subject together, and I was not more convinced than you were of the soundness of Adam Smith's principles of political economy till Lord Liverpool lured you from our arms into all the mazes of the old system.
I am confident that provisions, like every other article of commerce, if left to themselves, will and must find their level; and that every attempt to disturb that level by artificial contrivances has a necessary tendency to increase the evil it seeks to remedy.

[There is an] advantage, and even necessity, of uniting at this time in the public service the great bulk of the landed property of the country, and doing away all distinctions of party between those who wish the maintenance of order and tranquillity here.

Ireland is our weakest point, and to that our attention must be most directed; for anything else I have very little apprehension.