"Now, more than thirty years ago, when I was very young indeed, in my beginning to think about public affairs, in reading the pure writings of John Milton, I found a passage which fixed itself in my mind. This passage time has never been able to take from my memory. He says, "Yet true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth." And I have endeavoured, so far as I have had the opportunity of speaking in public, to abide by that wise and weighty saying."
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John Bright, speech in Edinburgh (3 November 1868), quoted in William Robertson, Life and Times of the Right Hon. John Bright (1883), p. 456
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1608 – 1674
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