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Proneness to changes and fondness for experiment have never been the…

Quote byHenry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston · 1784–1865

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech in the House of Commons (3 March 1831), quoted in George Henry Francis, Opinions and Policy of the Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B., M.P., &c. as Minister, Diplomatist, and Statesman, During More Than Forty Years of Public Life (1852), pp. 159-160.

English (original)

Proneness to changes and fondness for experiment have never been the character of the English nation.

— Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

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