The King of Prussia seems to have made his models of action Charles the first of England and Charles the Tenth of France and Bismarck is an humble Imitator of the Ministers of those Two unfortunate Sovereigns. I hope the King's fate will not be like theirs. The King... is quite wrong in attempting unconstitutionally to force his opinions upon his Parliament. He ought to give way and he will be compelled to give way.


Letter to King Leopold I of Belgium (15 November 1863), quoted in Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston (London: Constable, 1970), p. 569.

Henry Temple Quotes

The King of Prussia seems to have made his models of action Charles the first of England and Charles the Tenth of France and Bismarck is an humble...

The King of Prussia seems to have made his models of action Charles the first of England and Charles the Tenth of France and Bismarck is an humble...

The King of Prussia seems to have made his models of action Charles the first of England and Charles the Tenth of France and Bismarck is an humble...

The King of Prussia seems to have made his models of action Charles the first of England and Charles the Tenth of France and Bismarck is an humble...