George Canning Quotations
George Canning (11 April 1770 – 8 August 1827) was a British statesman and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and, briefly, Prime Minister.
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- I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
- The King’s Message, Dec. 12, 1826.
- I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
- As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) edited by Tryon Edwards, p. 587
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- Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir.
- The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.
- I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first.
- The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.
- So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides
The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.
- The Loves of the Triangles, line 178.
- And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,
Black ’s not so black,—nor white so very white.
- New Morality.
- Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet,—perhaps may turn his blow!
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!
- New Morality. Compare: "Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies", attributed to Maréchal Villars, when taking leave of Louis XIV.
- No, here ’s to the pilot that weathered the storm!
- The Pilot that weathered the Storm.
External links
Wikipedia has an article about: George Canning- More about George Canning on the Downing Street website.
- Royal Berkshire History: George Canning (1770-1827)
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