Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Quote

Whatever happens will be for the worse, and therefore it is in our interest that as little should happen as possible.


To Lord Dufferin about events in Persia, December 1879; Andrew Roberts Salisbury: Victorian Titan (1999)


Whatever happens will be for the worse, and therefore it is in our interest that as little should happen as possible.

Whatever happens will be for the worse, and therefore it is in our interest that as little should happen as possible.

Whatever happens will be for the worse, and therefore it is in our interest that as little should happen as possible.

Whatever happens will be for the worse, and therefore it is in our interest that as little should happen as possible.