“There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.”

— Charles James Fox

Letter to Edmund Burke (24 January 1779), quoted in L. G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox (London: Penguin, 1997), p. 41.
1770s

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