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I am firmly persuaded that among nations, weakness will never be a foundation for security.

— Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

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Speech in the House of Commons (26 February 1816), quoted in George Henry Francis, Opinions and Policy of the Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B., M.P., &c. as Minister, Diplomatist, and Statesman, During More Than Forty Years of Public Life (1852), pp. 11-12

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