Charles James Fox Video

Oh, my country! How I leave my country!

A state without some means of change is without the means of its conservation.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.

All those men have their price.

Better than a play!

There is measure in all things.

What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.

I saw and loved.

As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

No slave to his passions, he nonetheless reserved some passion for his slave.

Success has ruined many a man.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

When I went there, I did not think to have done this. But perceiving the spirit of God so strong upon me, I would not consult flesh and blood.

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

The fact speak for themselves.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.