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Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
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“I hope our active Secretary will at last find out that dexterity with princes, to seem to promise all and intend nothing, will as little do as with private persons.”
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693–1768) first seen 1743 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lord Hardwicke (6 October 1743), quoted in Philip C. Yorke, The Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Volume I (1913), p. 339
“I hope and believe you will receive, before you have this letter, an account of the signing the Definitive Treaty, and the accession of the court of Vienna; upon which near prospect, I most heartily congratulate you and my country. I feel the joy of an honest man upon it. I have the secret comfort of thinking that I have not only greatly, not to say almost singly, brought it about.”
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693–1768) first seen 1748 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Henry Pelham on the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (9-20 October 1748), quoted in William Coxe, Memoirs of the Administration of The Right Honourable Henry Pelham, Collected from the Family Papers, and Other Authen…
“You will not wonder that I have neither time nor spirits to write to you, having lost the best King, the best Master and the best Friend that ever subject had. God knows what consequences it may have.”
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693–1768) first seen 1760 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Joseph Yorke after the death of George II (28 October 1760), quoted in Philip C. Yorke, The Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Vol. III (1913), p…
“With all his faults we shall want Mr Pitt, if such a complicated, such an extensive war is to be carried on. I know nobody who can plan or push the execution of any plan agreed upon in the manner Mr Pitt did.”
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693–1768) first seen 1761 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lord Hardwicke (15 November 1761), quoted in Philip C. Yorke, The Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Vol. III (1913), pp. 338-339
“I cannot conclude without congratulating your excellency upon the success of our negociation at Vienna. The honour and credit which our royal master has so justly acquired by having singly given peace to all Europe, and the particular advantages which his majesty's own people will receive by it, are too great for his majesty's faithful subjects or servants not to take all opportunitys of expressing their gratitude and acknowledgments for it; and if your excellency can be so happy as to satisfy the court of France, the work will be complete indeed; and therefore I most heartily wish you success in it.”
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693–1768) first seen 1731 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lord Waldegrave on the Treaty of Vienna (26 March 1731), quoted in William Coxe, Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volume the Third (1798), p. 112