Famous quotes containing the words george, canning, foreign and/or secretary:
“What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.”
—David Lloyd George (1863–1945)
“A steady patriot of the world alone,
The friend of every country but his own.”
—George Canning (1770–1827)
“Science is an integral part of culture. It’s not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It’s one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.”
—Stephen Jay Gould (b. 1941)
“The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It was obviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)