Persecution always says, 'I know the consequences of your opinion better than you know them yourselves.' But the language of toleration was always amicable, liberal, and just: it confessed its doubts, and acknowledged its ignorance ... Persecution had always reasoned from cause to effect, from opinion to action, [that such an opinion would invariably lead to but one action], which… — Charles James Fox Copy Share
Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy. — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
The question now was...whether that beautiful fabric [the English constitution]...was to be maintained in that freedom...for which blood had been spilt; or whether we… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national strength, the… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind. — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree. — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
Any thing that proves that it is not in the power of Kings and Princes by their great armies to have every thing their… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
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