Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by George Canning

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

George Canning was a British Tory statesman. He held various senior cabinet positions under numerous prime ministers, including two important terms as Foreign Secretary, finally becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the last 118 days of his life, from April to August 1827.

English - Statesman | April 11, 1770 - August 8, 1827

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

George Canning

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

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 twenty per cent.

George Canning

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

George Canning

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

George Canning

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

George Canning

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

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.

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

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

George Canning

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

George Canning

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

George Canning

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

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

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

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

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

Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by George Canning

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