Quote#Nature
There appears to me to be no device at present but between an…
Quote byCharles James Fox · 1749–1806
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Lord Holland (15 November 1795), quoted in L. G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox (1997), p. 140.
English (original)
There appears to me to be no device at present but between an absolute surrender of the liberties of the People and a vigorous exertion... My view of things is I own very gloomy, and I am convinced that in a few years this Government will become completely absolute, or that confusion will arise of a nature almost as much to be deprecated as despotism itself... This is a great Crisis.
— Charles James Fox
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