Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 720 |
AUTHOR: | George Grenville (171270) |
QUOTATION: | A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter. |
ATTRIBUTION: | Though Grenville had taken a prominent part in the early measures against Wilkes, he opposed his expulsion from the House of Commons on 3 Feb. 1769, in probably the ablest speech that he ever made.The Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 8, p. 559. |
SUBJECTS: | Government |