concurrence quotes

You may call it coalition, you may call it the accidental and fortuitous concurrence of atoms†but when gentlemen are in the habit of finding themselves in the same Lobby, it is not unnatural to suppose that they may, under certain circumstances, be ready to unite themselves together for the purpose of forming an Administration and becoming responsible for the opinions that they severally entertain.

- HenryJohnTemple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
  Speech on the rumoured Palmerston^Disraeli coalition, 5 Mar.