Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston famous quotes

06-24-2025

We have not eternal allies and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and peretual and those interests it is out duty to follow.
-- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#Enemy #Allies #Politics
What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.
-- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#Men #Merit #Opinion
Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place.
-- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#Dirty #Son #Dirt
Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many Things Much worse than war. The maintenance of the Ottoman Empire belongs to the First Class, the Occupation of Turkey by Russia belongs to the Second.
-- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#War #Russia #Turkeys
Dirt is matter in the wrong place.
-- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#Matter #Dirt #Housework
We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
-- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#Enemy #Allies #Politics
There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.
-- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#Alliances #Interest #Permanent
Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.
-- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#Real #Abuse #Identity
The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who went mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it
-- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#Men #Europe #Mad
Large republics seem to be essentially and inherently aggressive.
-- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#Republic #Aggressive #Seems
We have no permanent allies, only permanent interests.
-- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#Allies #Interest #Permanent

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