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Letter "G" » George Canning Quotes
«I can prove anything by statistics except the truth»
«Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.»
«Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.»
«And finds, with keen discriminating sight, / Black's not so black; - nor white so very white.»
«I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.»
Author: George Canning
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| Keywords:
New World, redress, redressed, redressing
«But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, / Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!»
«I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first - / Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance; / Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, / Spiritless outcast!»
Author: George Canning
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| Keywords:
outcast, reprobate, reprobates, sixpence, sordid, spiritless, unfeeling, vengeance
«In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch / Is offering too little and asking too much. / The French are with equal advantage content, / So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.»
Author: George Canning
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| Keywords:
bottoms, cent, clap, clap on, the Dutch
«Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, Sir.»
«Away with the cant of ''Measures, not men!'' / the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.»
Author: George Canning
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| Keywords:
cant, comparatively, harness, supposition, The Cant, The Chariot
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