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As to Bonaparte, you know what my apprehensions always were, and I can not help thinking they are in a great degree verified. For though he may, and I hope he will, trounce the Austrians... yet it is impossible to deny that he has lost, or at least risqued the losing of an opportunity. Every man has his weak side, and I have always thought Bonaparte's was the thinking Austria more inclined to peace and more to be depended upon than She is. I hope to God he will not suffer from his errour.

Charles James Fox

Humanity [...] does not consist in a squeamish ear. It belongs to the mind as well as the nerves, and leads a man to take measures for the prevention of cruelty which the hypocritical cant of humanity contents itself in deploring.

Charles James Fox

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

Charles James Fox

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.

Charles James Fox