George Canning
George Canning
George Canning, FRS,was a British statesman and 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth11 April 1770
gratitude sleep dark
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!
eye thinking views
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.
offering asking littles
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.
party exercise practice
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.
sublime facts knows
There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.
history balance world
I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
country world patriot
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
funny humorous statistics
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
thanksgiving thankful gratitude
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
europe doe restless
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.
failure decision parent
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
keen nor white
And finds, with keen discriminating sight, / Black's not so black; - nor white so very white.