Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon Quote

It cannot but occur to every person's observation, that as long as parties exist in the country (and perhaps it is for the good of the country that parties should exist to a certain degree, because they keep ministers on their guard in their conduct), they will have their friends and adherents. A great political character, who held a high situation in this country some years ago, but who is now dead, used to say that ministers were the better for being now and then a little peppered and salted. And while these parties exist, they will have their friendships and attainments, which will sometimes dispose them to wander from argument to declamation.


Holt's Case (1793), 22 How. St. Tr. 1234.


It cannot but occur to every person's observation, that as long as parties exist in the country (and perhaps it is for the good of the country that...

It cannot but occur to every person's observation, that as long as parties exist in the country (and perhaps it is for the good of the country that...

It cannot but occur to every person's observation, that as long as parties exist in the country (and perhaps it is for the good of the country that...

It cannot but occur to every person's observation, that as long as parties exist in the country (and perhaps it is for the good of the country that...