Quotes by George Canning

“Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.”

“Heres to the pilot that weathered the storm.”

“And finds, with keen discriminating sight, / Blacks not so black; - nor white so very white.”

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

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

“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!”

“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.”

“Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, Sir.”

“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.”

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%.

Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all plagues good Heaven thy wrath can send Save save oh save me from the candid friend!

Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all plagues good Heaven thy wrath can send Save oh save me from the candid friend!

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

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