Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Quote

Great Britain is in a better state than at any former time to inflict a severe blow upon and to read a lesson to the United States which will not soon be forgotten.


Letter to Queen Victoria (5 December 1861), quoted in Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston (London: Constable, 1970), p. 554.


Great Britain is in a better state than at any former time to inflict a severe blow upon and to read a lesson to the United States which will not...

Great Britain is in a better state than at any former time to inflict a severe blow upon and to read a lesson to the United States which will not...

Great Britain is in a better state than at any former time to inflict a severe blow upon and to read a lesson to the United States which will not...

Great Britain is in a better state than at any former time to inflict a severe blow upon and to read a lesson to the United States which will not...