John Russell, 1st Earl Russell Quotes

• It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

  Voice, Impossible, Factions

  Letter to T. Attwood, October 1831, after the rejection in the House of Lords of the Reform Bill (7 October 1831)

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• I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.

  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

  Book, Blessing, Thinking

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• If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

  History, Honour, Ifs

  Greenock, 19 September 1853.

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• Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

  Bills, Absence, Lord

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 2-3, Address to the Electors of the City of London (April 6, 1859), 1922.

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