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

Source: Reply to a suggestion by Thomas Moore that George Canning might join with the Whigs to pass Catholic emancipation, quoted in Paul Scherer, Lord John Russell: A Biography (1999), p. 24

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leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Min… 1792–1878

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