Lord Palmerston
Lord Palmerston
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PCwas a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century. Popularly nicknamed "Pam" and "The Mongoose", he was in government office almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 1865, beginning his parliamentary career as a Tory, switching to the Whigs in 1830, and concluding it as the first Prime Minister of the newly-formed Liberal Party from 1859...
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Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.
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The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who became mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it.
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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!
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What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.