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I confess I have no idea of anything but confusion and weakness from…

Quote byCharles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham · 1730–1782

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Pemberton Milnes (28 February 1780), quoted in George Thomas, Earl of Albemarle, Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham and His Contemporaries, Vol. II (1852), p. 398.

English (original)

I confess I have no idea of anything but confusion and weakness from annual parliaments. I by no means disagree to the idea of equitable reform, in regard to what are called rotten boroughs, &c.

— Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham

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