Famous quotes containing the words george, canning and/or ambassador:
“What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.”
—David Lloyd George (1863–1945)
“The greatest and truest models for all orators ... is Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
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