This is indeed a maxim of general application...Nations cannot be governed by the obligations of friendship which prevail among individuals in private life...There can be, in the eyes of a philosophical statesman neither national enmities, nor national friendships. (Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey)

This is indeed a maxim of general application...Nations cannot be governed by the obligations of friendship which prevail among individuals in private life...There can be, in the eyes of a philosophical statesman neither national enmities, nor national friendships.

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey

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