Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or canning:
“Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“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.”
—George Canning (17701827)