| 12 Famous Quotes by George Canning
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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.”
Poverty Quotes Source: The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder
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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 20 per cent.”
Business Quotes Source: in a dispatch to Sir Charles Bagot
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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. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the
distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures
comparatively nothing.”
Politics Quotes Source: in a speech against the Addington Ministry
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“I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of
the Old.”
America Quotes Source: The King's Message
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“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.”
Friends Quotes Source: New Morality
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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, Song--Of One Eleven Years in Prison,”
Prison Quotes Source: Song--Of One Eleven Years in Prison, found in "The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin"
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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!”
Gratitude Quotes Source: Song (on "Billy Pitt"), sung at a public dinner
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“Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.”
Navigation Quotes Source: The Pilot that Weathered the Storm
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“And finds with keen, discriminating sight,
Black's not so black--nor white so very white.”
Sight Quotes Source: New Morality
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“Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.”
Indecision Quotes |
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“Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.”
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“Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.”
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George Canning Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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