George Canning/paymaster of The Forces - 1800-1801

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    “Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.”
    —17th century English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

    “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 (1770–1827)

    “... we shall never become an immense power in the world until we concentrate all our money and editorial forces upon one great national daily newspaper, so we can sauce back our opponents every day in the year; once a month or once a week is not enough.”
    —Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)