"I am enough son of my country and have enough of the Shorter Catechism still sticking about my inside to do my best when a thing comes straight to me."

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Prime Ministers of the United KingdomLiberal Party (UK) politiciansPeople from GlasgowLeaders of the Opposition (United Kingdom)Leaders of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)
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Letter to John Ellis shortly before he became leader of the Liberal Party (c. January 1899), quoted in J. A. Spender, The Life of The Right Hon. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, G.C.B. Vol. I (1923), p. 216