Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because this isolation of England comes from her superiority.
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Speech in the Canadian House of Assembly (5 February 1896), as quoted in the NED, vol. 5 (1901), p. 508, s.v. 'Isolation'. Copied from the NED by Harry B. Polland in Notes and Queries, ser. 11, no. 128 (8 June 1912), p. 454. Also in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 224. See also: George Goschen