Charles James
Charles James
Charles Wilson Brega Jameswas a British-born fashion designer known as "America's First Couturier". He is widely considered to have been a master of cutting and is known for his highly structured aesthetic...
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth18 July 1906
gratitude attachment mind
The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.
kings army people
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.
powerful accomplishment wish
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.
fighting causes advantage
[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.
europe british-monarchy unlimited
There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].
night thinking years
So fully am I impressed with the vast importance and necessity of attaining what will be the object of my motion this night, that if, during the almost forty years that I have had the honour of a seat in parliament, I had been so fortunate as to accomplish that, and that only, I should think I had done enough, and could retire from public life with comfort, and the conscious satisfaction, that I had done my duty.
war term hardest
I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.
evil restoration world
a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.
kings assembly
Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
men rights natural
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.
relationship leadership opinion
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.
power political political-power
All political power is a trust.
society revolution restoration
The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
ideas people speech
Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.