Charles James Fox Quotes

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.

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

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

All political power is a trust.

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

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.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

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

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

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.

Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People.

No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.