William Ewart Gladstone on John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
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โ[H]e had for the last few years done nothing, but injure a brilliant reputation.โ
โA great reputation built itself up on the basis of splendid public services for thirty years; for almost twenty it has, I fear, been on the decline. The movement of the clock continues, the balance weights are gone.โ
โHe brought into public life, and he carried through it unimpaired, the qualities which ennoble mankindโtruth, justice, fortitude, self-denial, a fund of genuine indignation against wrong, and an inexhaustible sympathy with human suffering.โ