John Russell, 1st Earl Russell quotes

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.”
-- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

#Wit Quotes
“If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.”
-- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

Source : Greenock, 19 September 1853.

#History Quotes #Honour Quotes
“It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.”
-- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

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

#Voice Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Factions Quotes
“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

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.

#Bills Quotes #Absence Quotes #Lord Quotes
“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 Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

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