Quote#Nature
Where could be found finer sentiments of liberty, than in the works…
Quote byCharles James Fox · 1749–1806
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech in the House of Commons (19 April 1791), quoted in The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons. Vol. IV (1815), p. 192.
English (original)
Where could be found finer sentiments of liberty, than in the works of Demosthenes and Cicero? Where should we meet with bolder assertions of the rights of mankind, and the dignity of human nature, than in the historians Tacitus and Thucydides?
— Charles James Fox
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