Charles James Fox
Charles James Fox
Charles James Fox PC, styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. His father Henry, a leading Whig of his day, had similarly been the great rival of Pitt's famous father. He rose to prominence in the House of Commons as a forceful and eloquent speaker with a notorious and colourful private life,...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 January 1749
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There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].
Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.
Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People.
[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.
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.
Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.
Any thing that proves that it is not in the power of Kings and Princes by their great armies to have every thing their own way is of such good example that without any good will to the French one can not help being delighted by it, and you know I have a natural partiality to what some people call rebels.
No human government has a right to enquire into private opinions, to presume that it knows them, or to act on that presumption. Men are the best judges of the consequences of their own opinions, and how far they are likely to influence their actions; and it is most unnatural and tyrannical to say, "as you think, so must you act. I will collect the evidence of your future conduct from what I know to be your opinions."
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.
How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! And how much the best!