We do not want Egypt any more than any rational man with an estate in the north of England and a residence in the south, would have wished to possess the inns on the north road. All he could want would have been that the inns should be well kept, always accessible, and furnishing him, when he came, with mutton chops and post horses.


letter to Earl Cowley, 25 November 1859, in Hon. Evelyn Ashley Life of…Viscount Palmerston 1846–65 (1876) vol. 2, ch. 4

Henry Temple Quotes

We do not want Egypt any more than any rational man with an estate in the north of England and a residence in the south, would have wished to possess ...

We do not want Egypt any more than any rational man with an estate in the north of England and a residence in the south, would have wished to possess ...

We do not want Egypt any more than any rational man with an estate in the north of England and a residence in the south, would have wished to possess ...

We do not want Egypt any more than any rational man with an estate in the north of England and a residence in the south, would have wished to possess ...