Robert Stewart (18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822) was an Irish and British statesman.

Quotes

• I feel no wrath against the people, I am only doing my duty.
  • Speech in the House of Commons in the aftermath of the Peterloo massacre, introducing a Bill to outlaw such radical meetings, prevent the training of dissidents, and seize arms (3 December 1819).

Quotes about Castlereagh

• Quest.—Why is a Pump like Viscount Castlereagh?
  Answ.—Because it is a slender thing of wood,
  That up and down its awkward arm doth sway,
  And coolly spout, and spout, and spout away,
  In one weak, washy, everlasting flood!
  • Thomas Moore, Poem What's My Thought Like?

• As for my friend Lord Castlereagh, he is so cold that nothing can warm him.
  • Lord Cornwallis.

• Just and passionless.
  • Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt

• There probably never was a statesman whose ideas were so right and whose attitude to public opinion was so wrong. Such disparity between the grasp of ends and the understanding of means amounts to a failure in statesmanship.
  • Charles Webster, The Foreign Policy of Castlereagh (1931), p. 231

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