I decline the election. — It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.


Speech at Bristol on declining the poll (9 September 1780).


I decline the election. — It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been...

I decline the election. — It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been...

I decline the election. — It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been...

I decline the election. — It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been...