“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.” WorldShouldWishCausesInterestPowerfulModernExampleAccomplishmentGermanyBritainRepublicHonourSpainModern WorldPreventingGreat PowerGreat BritainGreat Powerful Book:Memorials and correspondence Source: Memorials and correspondence
“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.” IfsThinkingShouldYearsDoneEnoughNightObjectsDutyComfortConsciousImportanceSatisfactionAccomplishFortunateSeatsFortyHonourRetiringImpressedParliamentPublic Life Book:The speeches of the right honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons Source: The speeches of the right honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons
