Carolina QuotesI have neither memory to retain, judgment to collect, nor skill to guide, their debates; nor can I boast of any thing that could entitle me to the favor of the Commons, but an unshaken fidelity to the Protestant succession.
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Address to George I in the House of Lords (21 March 1715), quoted in The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol. VII. A.D. 1714–1722 (1811), column 41
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