George Canning Quotes

• I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

  George Canning

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• Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

  George Canning

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• Give me the avowed, erect and manly foe; Firm I can meet, perhaps return the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend.

  George Canning

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• And finds, with keen discriminating sight, Black’s not so black;—nor white so very white.

  George Canning

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• Pitt is to Addington As London is to Paddington.

  George Canning

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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

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

  George Canning

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  Tags in World, Existence

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

  George Canning

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Friend

• 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

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  Tags in Dutch, Fault, French

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

  George Canning

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  Tags in Pilot

George Canning (10)

Birth:	11th April, 1770
Death:	8th August, 1827
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician

About

George Canning was born in Marylebone, Middlesex, London, England. He was a British Tory politician who served in various senior cabinet positions under numerous Prime Ministers, before himself serving as Prime Minister for the final four months of his life. He was Paymaster of the Forces and Treasurer of the Navy under William Pitt the Younger and Foreign Secretary under The Duke of Portland. He subsequently served under new Prime Minister The Earl of Liverpool as British Ambassador to Portugal, President of the Board of Control, Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons.

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