Quote#Politics & Power
As to the state of public affairs, it seems to me that war is…
Quote byWilliam Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville · 1759–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to the Marquess of Buckingham (20 October 1802), quoted in The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Memoirs of the Court of George the Third. From Original Family Documents. Vol. III (1855), p. 214.
English (original)
As to the state of public affairs, it seems to me that war is inevitable—that war, if it comes, must a little sooner or a little later, place the government in Pitt's hands; and that this ought to be the wish of every man, who thinks it at all material to himself, whether Bonaparte shall or not treat us in twelve months, precisely in the style he has now treated the Swiss.
— William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
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