“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
“No human government has a right to enquire into private opinions, to presume that it knows them, or to act on that presumption. Men are the best judges of the consequences of their own opinions, and how far they are likely to influence their actions; and it is most unnatural and tyrannical to say, "as you think, so must you act. I will collect the evidence of your future conduct from what I know to be your opinions."” ThinkingKnowsMenHumansGovernmentActionOpinionInfluenceJudgingEvidenceConsequenceOur FutureYour FutureUnnaturalPresumption Book:The Speeches ... in the House of Commons Source: The Speeches ... in the House of Commons
