George Canning Quote

We are hated throughout Europe and that hate must be cured by fear.


Letter to George Leveson-Gower (2 October 1807), quoted in Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England. 1783-1846 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), p. 211.


We are hated throughout Europe and that hate must be cured by fear.

We are hated throughout Europe and that hate must be cured by fear.

We are hated throughout Europe and that hate must be cured by fear.

We are hated throughout Europe and that hate must be cured by fear.