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George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
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“For three or four miles the ground is covered with bodies of men and horses, many not dead. Wretches wounded unable to crawl, crying for water amidst heaps of putrefying bodies. Their screams are heard at an immense distance, and still ring in my ears. The living as well as the dead are stripped by the barbarous peasantry, who have not sufficient charity to put the miserable wretches out of their pain. Our victory is most complete. It must be owned that a victory is a fine thing, but one should be at a distance.”
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860) first seen 1813 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lady Maria after the Battle of Leipzig (22 October 1813), quoted in Lady Frances Balfour, The Life of George, Fourth Earl of Aberdeen, K.G., K.T., Vol. I ([1922]), p. 125
“The whole subject of the Eucharist is too mysterious and difficult for me to arrive at any positive conviction; but in a case of this kind, to inflict penalties upon a man for believing more than his neighbour, in a matter neither of them can comprehend, would amount to a tyranny, and I therefore deprecate the threatened eviction of the Archdeacon.”
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860) first seen 1857 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to William Ewart Gladstone regarding George Denison, who had resigned his position as examining chaplain to the Bishop of Bath and Wells owing to his views on the Eucharist (1857), quoted in Lady Frances Balfour,…
“And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God: but the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight (I Chronicles xxii. 7, 8).”
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement written by him more than once and at different times on various scraps of paper, quoted in Lady Frances Balfour, The Life of George, Fourth Earl of Aberdeen, K.G., K.T., Vol. II ([1922]), p. 299