Quotes of George Canning - somelinesforyou

“ 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%. ”

- George Canning

“ 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%. ”

- George Canning

“ 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

“ Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend! ”

- George Canning

“ Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend! ”

- George Canning

“ Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend! ”

- George Canning

“ And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black — nor white so very white. ”

- George Canning

“ 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

“ 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%. ”

- George Canning

“ I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. ”

- George Canning

“ I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. ”

- George Canning

“ 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%. ”

- George Canning

“ Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend! ”

- George Canning

“ I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. ”

- George Canning

“ 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. ”

- George Canning

“ Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend! ”

- George Canning

“ 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%. ”

- George Canning

“ 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%. ”

- George Canning

“ 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. ”

- George Canning

“ 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%. ”

- George Canning

“ I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. ”

- George Canning

“ 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! ”

- George Canning

“ 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. ”

- George Canning

“ Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. ”

- George Canning

“ 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. ”

- George Canning

“ 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. ”

- George Canning

“ I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. ”

- George Canning

“ Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. ”

- George Canning

“ I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. ”

- George Canning

“ 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. ”

- George Canning
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