"Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic."

--

Source : Charles James Fox (1970). “Memorials and correspondence”

Charles James Fox

#Powerful Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.”
“I have respected women from the beginning of my life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As leaders, we understand that intangibles are important, but we don't have a clue how to measure them.”
“You brain does its best when it is doing a task it can do well. That's basic brain science.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Perhaps freedom from ideas of freedom - is the sweetest freedom of all.”
“[On being lesbian:] One pointer: don't come out to your dad in a moving vehicle.”
“Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.”
“It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.”

Source : "Video Q&A: Jake Abel And Max Irons Talk 'The Host'" by Joanna Varikos, www.mtv.com. November 13, 2012.

You may also like:

Edmund Burke
Statesman
George Canning
Former Foreign Secretary
George III
Monarch
George IV of the United Kingdom
King
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Former First Lord of the Treasury
Thomas Clarkson
William Pitt
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
British statesman
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
Home Secretary