"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."

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Source : Charles James Fox (1815). “The speeches of the right honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons”, p.659

Charles James Fox

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