George Canning/ambassador To Lisbon - 1814%e2%80%931816

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    Away with the cant of “Measures, not men!”Mthe 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.
    —George Canning (1770–1827)

    I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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