Quote#Politics & Power
France is your natural enemy; she is more so as a republic than as a…
Quote byRobert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool · 1770–1828
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech in the House of Commons (1792), quoted in Maximilien Sébastien Foy, History of the War in the Peninsula, Under Napoleon, Vol. I (1827), p. 122.
English (original)
France is your natural enemy; she is more so as a republic than as a monarchy. We know less at what point a nation will stop than a king.
— Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
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