Quote#Wisdom
If we are to undertake the job, we must leave nothing to chance. It…
Quote byRobert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh · 1769–1822
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to the Duke of Wellington (26 March 1815), quoted in Correspondence, Despatches, and Other Papers, of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of Londonderry. Vol. X., ed. Charles William Vane, Marquess of Londonderry (1853), pp. 285-286.
English (original)
If we are to undertake the job, we must leave nothing to chance. It must be done upon the largest scale... [Y]ou must inundate France with force in all directions. If Bonaparte could turn the tide, there is no calculating upon his plan; and we must always recollect that Poland, Saxony, and much Jacobinism, are in our rear.
— Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
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