George Canning/treasurer of The Navy - 1804%e2%80%931806

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    “The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.”
    —David Lloyd George (1863–1945)

    “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.”
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    “There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.”
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