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Ocupation: Former First Lord of the Treasury

Life: August 18, 1792 - May 28, 1878

Birthday: August 18

Death: May 28


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

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

Topics: Voice, Impossible, Factions

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

source: - "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.

Topics: Bills, Absence, Lord, Derby


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