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date: 13 September 2024

Lord John Russell 1792–1878
British Whig statesman; Prime Minister 1846–52, 1865–6 

  1. If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.
    speech at Greenock, 19 September 1853; see Chamberlain, Disraeli
  2. A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
    R. J. Mackintosh Sir James Mackintosh (1835)