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George Canning
George Canning
- In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch
Is offering too little and asking too much.dispatch, in cipher, to the English ambassador at the Hague, 31 January 1826Sir Harry Poland Mr Canning's Rhyming ‘Dispatch’ to Sir Charles Bagot (1905) - A steady patriot of the world alone,
The friend of every country but his own.on the Jacobin‘New Morality’ (1821) l. 113; see Disraeli - Give me the avowed, erect and manly foe;
Firm I can meet, perhaps return the blow;
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend.‘New Morality’ (1821) l. 209 - 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. If the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.
- I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.speech on the affairs of Portugal, in House of Commons 12 December 1826
