George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen
George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen (10 August 1831 – 7 February 1907), was a British statesman and businessman best remembered for being "forgotten" by Lord Randolph Churchill. He was initially a Liberal, then a Liberal Unionist before joining the Conservative Party in 1893.
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Quotes
[edit]- We have stood alone in that which is called isolation — our splendid isolation, as one of our colonial friends was good enough to call it.
- Speech at Lewes (26 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. See also: Wilfrid Laurier
External links
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Encyclopedic article on George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen on Wikipedia- Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 224
