Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey

This is indeed a maxim of general application... Nations cannot be governed by the obligations of friendship which prevail among individuals in private life... There can be, in the eyes of a philosophical statesman neither national …

I am indeed convinced that the more the bill is considered, the less it will be found to prejudice the real interests of the aristocracy.

I am a great lover of morality, public and private, but the intercourse of nations cannot be strictly regulated by that rule.

I have written with a very confused head from the affects of laudanum.

It is impossible not to admire his ability, resource, and fortitude, in presenting himself everywhere to repel the dangers which assail him.

With all the uncertainty of the success of the next campaign, and with the absolute certainty that we are now making our last effort...I should be willing to conclude a peace, which compared with our situation a year ago would be most …

[Accounts from Russia lead me to conclude,] as you probably have done, that no reasonable hope of success is to be entertained in that quarter.

[T]he French are on the point of making a great effort in Portugal...which Lord Wellington...will find himself unable to resist. But even if such an effort could not take place or should not succeed, I am convinced the period when we shall …

Wellesley's success...appears to have been nothing more than an affair of a rear-guard, and is ridiculously magnified.

To assist the Spaniards is morally and politically one of the highest duties a nation ever had to perform.

[The Spanish news] really keeps me awake at night and in the day I can think of nothing else. I did not think it possible that anything could have made me regret being out of office, but I now wish I was in a situation, in which it might …

Mr. Grey was much obliged to his hon. friend for submitting the motion to the House. The length of time during which the nation had groaned under such vexatious and tyrannical institutions, was with him a reason why they should exist no …

Bad as I am thought, I cannot express the horror I feel at this atrocity.