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John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
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“He took this opportunity to also to add, that it was the glory and happiness of his life to reflect, that the advice he had given his Majesty since he had had the honour to be consulted, was just what he thought it ought to be.”
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Recorded in: Speech in the House of Lords (29 January 1762), quoted in Sir Henry Cavendish's Debates of The House of Commons, During the Thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain, Vol. I. May 10, 1768–May 3, 1770 (1841), p. 565
“I follow one uniform system and that is founded in the strictest honour, faith and duty.”
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Recorded in: Letter to Henry Fox shortly before his resignation (1763), quoted in Karl Schweizer, 'John Stuart, Third Earl of Bute', in Robert Eccleshall and Graham Walker (eds.), Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers (…