I will not talk of non-intervention, for it is not an English word.
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Last words:
Die, my dear doctor? That's the last thing I shall do.Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
The function of a government is to calm, rather than to excite agitation.
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
On being told that English has no word equivalent to sensibilité:
Yes we have. Humbug.Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
As to tenant-right, I may be allowed to say that I think it is equivalent to landlords' wrong.
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
He is a dangerous man; keep him in Oxford and he is partially muzzled; but send him elsewhere and he will run wild.
Of Gladstone
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and these interests it is our duty to follow.
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston