“It is said,—and men seem to think that condemnation can go no further than such a censure—that they brought us within twenty-four hours of revolution…But is it in truth so great an evil, when the dearest interests and the most sincere convictions are at stake, to go within twenty-four hours of revolution?”

—  Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

On resistance to the Reform Act 1832. Quarterly Review, 123, 1867, p. 557
1860s

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