Top 19 Charles James Fox Quotes
#2. Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.
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#3. There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].
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#4. Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.
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#5. There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.
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#6. Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
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#8. Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.
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#9. How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! And how much the best!
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#10. Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.
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#12. The question now was ... whether that beautiful fabric [the English constitution] ... was to be maintained in that freedom ... for which blood had been spilt; or whether we were to submit to that system of despotism, which had so many advocates in this country.
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#13. He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.
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#14. Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.
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#15. Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.
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#16. [Napoleon has now] surpassed ... Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.
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#17. There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure.
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#18. A greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.
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