Charles James Fox Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

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.

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.

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

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.

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.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People.
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There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

A greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.
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[Napoleon has now] surpassed ... Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.