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1749–1806
Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806) was a British Whig politician most noted for his support of the American and French Revolutions.
Also known as: Fox, Charles James
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The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
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.
No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.
He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
Difference of opinion was, in his mind, one great cause of the improvement of mankind, because it led to inquiry and discussion.
Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People.
The right of popular discussion was a salutary and an essential privilege of the subject.
If you suffer the liberty of speech to be wrested from you, you will then have lost the freedom, the energy, the boldness of the British character.
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.
All political power is a trust.
How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best!
Religion was best understood when least talked of.
Kings, Sir, govern by means of popular assemblies, only because they cannot do without them; to suppose a king fond of that mode of governing, is to suppose a chimera.
Upon the liberty of the press and freedom of discussion, the basis of the constitution was known to rest. Take away these, and the whole fabric most fall.
There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].
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.
To suppose a man wicked or immoral, merely on account of any difference of religious opinion, was as false as it was absurd; yet this was the original principle of persecution.
Where could be found finer sentiments of liberty, than in the works of Demosthenes and Cicero? Where should we meet with bolder assertions of the rights of mankind, and the dignity of human nature, than in the historians Tacitus and Thucydides?
...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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