27 Quotes by Charles James Fox

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.