"[A] great man, the greatest perhaps that this age or this country has produced, to whom this country owes her present prosperity, and, I am sorry to say it, her pride, her pride of conquest, which has infatuated her, even in this impracticable war, with the ideas of victory, and certain success; that great man, from whose opinions, though some of your lordships may sometimes differ, yet there is not one of your lordships who does not pay homage to his consummate capacity, his extensive talents, his great services, and his age, when he delivers those opinions from his place."
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Lord Camden, speech in the House of Lords (16 March 1775), quoted in The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803 ... Vol. XVIII. A.D. 1774—1777 (1813), column 445
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