“I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.”
The King’s Message, Dec. 12, 1826.
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“I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first.”
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir.”
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“No, here ’s to the pilot that weathered the storm!”
The Pilot that weathered the Storm.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, ‘Epistle to the Editors of the Anti-Jacobin’, quoted in Wendy Hinde, George Canning (London: Purnell Books Services, 1973), p. 59.
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“So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides
The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.”
The Loves of the Triangles, line 178.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
George Canning Quotes
New Morality. Compare: "Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies", attributed to Maréchal Villars, when taking leave of Louis XIV.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Speech in 1798, quoted in Wendy Hinde, George Canning (London: Purnell Books Services, 1973), p. 66.
“We are hated throughout Europe and that hate must be cured by fear.”
Letter to George Leveson-Gower (2 October 1807), quoted in Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England. 1783-1846 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), p. 211.
“I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.”
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) edited by Tryon Edwards, p. 587.
“And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,
Black ’s not so black,—nor white so very white.”
New Morality.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
