Louis Philippe I

"Le juste milieu."

"La charte sera désormais une vérité."

"Entente cordiale"

"The cordial agreement"

"I will never allow a Prince, who should only be there to hold the stirrup for Bonaparte's family, to become King of a neighboring realm."

"Under a cabinet constitution at a sudden emergency this people can choose a ruler for the occasion. It is quite possible and even likely that he would not be ruler before the occasion. The great qualities, the imperious will, the rapid energy, the eager nature fit for a great crisis are not required—are impediments—in common times. A Lord Liverpool is better in everyday politics than a Chatham—a Louis Philippe far better than a Napoleon. By the structure of the world we want, at the sudden occurrence of a grave tempest, to change the helmsman—to replace the pilot of the calm by the pilot of the storm."

"King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner."