Bourbon Quote by Charles James Fox

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

— Charles James Fox

Men and women thought and did noble and mean things that would have been impossible to them before or after. A man cannot drink…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose…

— Stuart Hall

Heaven can never countenance the barbarous and unmanly practice of the Britons in America, which savages would blush at, and which, if not discontinued,…

— John Paul Jones

For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.

— Reginald Maudling

I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

— Hugo Black

England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although she has…

— John C. Calhoun

What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“When God wished to punish France, he took away the Bourbons from her governance”

— Louis de Bonald

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

— Benjamin Disraeli