John Russell, 1st Earl Russell Quotes
It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
Letter to T. Attwood, October 1831, after the rejection in the House of Lords of the Reform Bill (7 October 1831)
If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.
Greenock, 19 September 1853.
"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.