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Charles Grey, 2.º Conde Grey KG PC , foi diplomata e político ligado ao partido whig, de tendência liberal, tendo sido Primeiro-ministro do Reino Unido entre 1830 e 1834. Ficou conhecido como Charles Grey, até 1806, e como "Visconde Howick", de 1806 até 1807.

Grey notabilizou-se por defender a reforma do Parlamento e a Emancipação Católica. Manteve um notório caso amoroso com Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duquesa de Devonshire, ela mesma uma ativista política, com a qual teve uma filha - uma ancestral de Sarah, Duquesa de Iorque. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Março 1764 – 17. Julho 1845
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Charles Grey, 2.° Conde Grey: Frases em inglês

“This is indeed a maxim of general application…Nations cannot be governed by the obligations of friendship which prevail among individuals in private life…There can be, in the eyes of a philosophical statesman neither national enmities, nor national friendships.”

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Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey

Letter to Lord Palmerston (9 October 1833), quoted in E. A. Smith, Lord Grey. 1764-1845 (Alan Sutton, 1996), p. 284.
1830s

“We are referred to the period the Revolution [of 1688]. We are told to be contented with those securities for our liberties which our ancestors provided…It is pleaded as an invincible bar to any improvement proposed in favour of the people, though it is not allowed the smallest authority when it is opposed to an enlargement of power: when the crown is to be invested with any new prerogatives, the ancient landmarks may be removed without a scruple, but they are sacred against the best founded claims of the people…The point now is, to inquire, whether, in the course of human affairs, and the changes which time and events have produced, the principle of freedom has preserved those bulwarks and securities with which it was the object of the Revolution to invest it? Whether the crown has not gained a degree of influence beyond the regulated portion assigned by the establishments of our ancestors, and which either has been, or threatens to become, injurious to cause of liberty and to the of the empire?”

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Speech in the House of Commons (25 April 1800), reported in The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803. Vol. XXXV (London: 1819), pp. 91-93.
1800s