Quotes by Canning, George

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. >>

Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that >>

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps >>

Quotations about Politicians and Politics

In politics the middle way is none at all. >>

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood alw >>

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or >>

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.

Canning, George