Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Quotes

• We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Enemy, Allies, Politics

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• There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Alliances, Interest, Permanent

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• Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many Things Much worse than war. The maintenance of the Ottoman Empire belongs to the First Class, the Occupation of Turkey by Russia belongs to the Second.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Peace, War, Russia

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• Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Dirty, Son, Dirt

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• The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who went mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Men, Europe, Mad

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• Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Real, Abuse, Identity

  1839 Letter to Henry Bulwer,1 Sep.

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• We have no permanent allies, only permanent interests.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Allies, Interest, Permanent

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• What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Men, Merit, Opinion

  In Thomas Carlyle 'Shooting Niagara: and After?' (1867) ch. 8

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• Large republics seem to be essentially and inherently aggressive.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Republic, Aggressive, Seems

  1848 Letter to the British Ambassador to Paris, 5 Mar.

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• Dirt is matter in the wrong place.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Matter, Dirt, Housework

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