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[In the French Revolution] there is much to approve and much to condemn…. An essential change was necessary for the happiness and dignity of a great people, long in a state of degradation.

Robert Stewart Castlereagh

… conduct unworthy of any State calling itself civilized and free.

Robert Stewart Castlereagh

No [British] administration could remain in power that should consent to renounce the right of impressment or to suspend the practice …

Robert Stewart Castlereagh

It is not our business to collect trophies but to try … [to] bring back the world to peaceful habits

Many in England and the other allies wanted to punish France for their aggression under Napoleon by barring France from the Concert of Europe—an informal institution of the major powers of Europe. Castlereagh’s view prevailed and France was included.

Robert Stewart Castlereagh

[Europe needs] the efficiency and … simplicity of a single state.

This is one of the earliest conceptions of a European Community. It is not known whether he was referring to Europe including England or continental Europe only without England.

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ROBERT STEWART CASTLEREAGH