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John Michael Russell was a British rower who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics. Rowing career Russell was born on 3 August 1935 in Chiswick, London. In 1959, he won both the Wingfield Sculls and the Scullers Head of the River Race. In 1960, he was a crew member of the British coxed four which was eliminated in the repechage of the coxed four event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. In the same year, he won both the Grand Challenge Cup and the Stewards Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. He represented England and won double Bronze in the coxed four and eights at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia.

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“What a pity that he who steals a penny loaf should be hung, whilst he who steals thousands of the public money should be acquitted!”
— 1806 journal entry on the acquittal of Lord Melville for misappropriation of public funds, as quoted in Stuart J. Reid, Lord John Russell (1895), p.9
“[A proverb is] one man's wit, and all men's wisdom.”
— Variant: [A proverb is] the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
“I wish I knew what to do to help your country. But, as I do not, it is of no use giving her smooth words, as O’Connell told me, and I must be silent.”
— Letter to Thomas Moore, December 1832, quoted in Spencer Walpole, The Life of Lord John Russell. Vol. 1 (1889), p. 180
“If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.”
— Greenock, 19 September 1853
“I have seemed cold to my friends, but it was not in my heart.”
— Comment during final illness, as recalled by his nephew George W. E. Russell in Prime Ministers and Some Others, 1918, p. 24
“What courage! There is not a man on the Tory benches around him but doesn't disapprove of every word he says.”
— On a speech by Benjamin Disraeli in support of Jewish rights, quoted in J. H. Morgan, John Viscount Morley An Appreciation and Some Reminiscences, 1924, p. 88

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Notable quotes

“What a pity that he who steals a penny loaf should be hung, whilst he who steals thousands of the public money should be acquitted!”
— 1806 journal entry on the acquittal of Lord Melville for misappropriation of public funds, as quoted in Stuart J. Reid, Lord John Russell (1895), p.9
“[A proverb is] one man's wit, and all men's wisdom.”
— Variant: [A proverb is] the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
“I wish I knew what to do to help your country. But, as I do not, it is of no use giving her smooth words, as O’Connell told me, and I must be silent.”
— Letter to Thomas Moore, December 1832, quoted in Spencer Walpole, The Life of Lord John Russell. Vol. 1 (1889), p. 180
“If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.”
— Greenock, 19 September 1853
“I have seemed cold to my friends, but it was not in my heart.”
— Comment during final illness, as recalled by his nephew George W. E. Russell in Prime Ministers and Some Others, 1918, p. 24
“What courage! There is not a man on the Tory benches around him but doesn't disapprove of every word he says.”
— On a speech by Benjamin Disraeli in support of Jewish rights, quoted in J. H. Morgan, John Viscount Morley An Appreciation and Some Reminiscences, 1924, p. 88

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