Quote#Wisdom
Take our constitution, wanting certainly as it did many reforms, yet,…
Quote byRichard Brinsley Sheridan · 1751–1816
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech in the House of Commons (21 July 1812), quoted in The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, Vol. XXIII (1812), column 1156.
English (original)
Take our constitution, wanting certainly as it did many reforms, yet, practically, it afforded the best security that human wisdom had ever given to man.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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