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I am in my politics for reform and nothing but reform.

— John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

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No man can complain that he has been wronged, a nation may rejoice that she has been righted.

I should say it is like a famine of the thirteenth century acting upon the population of the nineteenth.

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

They are obliged to enforce, by arms, obedience to acts of this House—which, according to every just theory, are supposed to emanate from the people themselves.

Who the devil will coalesce with people that don't coalesce with themselves.

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