“There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].”

— Charles James Fox

Letter to Lord Holland (9 January 1804), quoted in L. G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox (London: Penguin, 1997), p. 194.
1800s

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British Whig statesman 1749–1806

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