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The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of France and Great Britain.

If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the best compromise.

It is strange so great a statesman should Be so sublime a poet.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would by my standard of a statesman.

Learn to think impartially.

No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.

The people of the two nations must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.

I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.

Spheres of influence.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

Learn to think continentally.

Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none.

Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.

Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart, His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd, All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd.

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend, Ennobled by himself, by all approved, And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved.

It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.

And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne.

And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.