George Canning Quotes

• Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

  George Canning

  Business, Mistake, Failure

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• I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

  George Canning

  Funny, Humorous, Statistics

  "A Dictionary of Thought" edited by Tryon Edwards, (p. 587), 1908.

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• When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

  George Canning

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

  George Canning (1826). “Poetical Works ...: Comprising the Whole of the Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems”, p.26

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• Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.

  George Canning

  Europe, Doe, Restless

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• There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.

  George Canning

  Sublime, Facts, Knows

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• A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

  George Canning

  Country, World, Patriot

  Referring to the Jacobin, in 'New Morality' (1821) l. 113.

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• Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

  George Canning

  Storm, Pilots, Weathered

  George Canning, R. Therry (1836). “The speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: with a memoir of his life”, p.29

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• I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

  George Canning

  History, Balance, World

  Speech in House of Commons, 12 Dec. 1826

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• 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.

  George Canning

  Horse, Men, Political

  House of Commons, 1801

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• If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!

  George Canning

  Gratitude, Sleep, Dark

  George Canning (1842). “Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches”, p.559

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• Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity, for the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other as if he constantly remembered the obligation.

  George Canning

  Party, Exercise, Practice

  George Canning (1842). “Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches”, p.533

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• But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

  George Canning

  Wrath, Heaven, Candid

  'New Morality' (1821) l. 207

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• Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.

  George Canning

  Eye, Thinking, Views

  'Song'

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• Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.

  George Canning

  Blow, Order, Knives

  George Canning (1842). “Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches”, p.557

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• So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

  George Canning

  Romance, Three, Hills

  George Canning (1854). “Poetry of the anti-Jacobin: comprising the celebrated political & satirical poems, parodies, and jeux-d'esprit of George Canning ...”, p.137

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• Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

  George Canning

  Men, Mars, Creation

  'The Progress of Man' (1799) l. 55

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• 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.

  George Canning

  Offering, Littles, Dutch

  Dispatch, in cipher, to the English Ambassador at the Hague, 31 January 1826, in Sir Harry Poland 'Mr Canning's Rhyming 'Dispatch' to Sir Charles Bagot' (1905)

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