James Fox
James Fox
William "James" Foxis an English actor...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth19 May 1939
men thinking judging
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."
senseless
The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murders.
decade great situation successes
The great successes we had a decade ago is gone. We let down our guard. The situation is not yet lost, but it could get much worse.
arm bullet certain degree difficult extremely hit interpret reached tendency victim whether year
This tendency to look year by year is extremely myopic. There is a certain degree of variability . . . whether the bullet hit the arm or the heart; whether the victim reached the ER in time. It makes it very difficult to interpret the changes.
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.
men mind honor
Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.
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.
people sovereign majesty
Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People.
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.
war wish lasts
Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.
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.
men resistance size
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.
war term hardest
I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.