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Charles Pelham Villiers

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I do not come here to haggle about the best mode of effecting compromise with a bad principle: satisfied of its badness, I oppose it entirely.

Right Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., speech in the House of Commons, May 9, 1843.

Villiers was arguing for the repeal of Britain’s Corn Laws.

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