I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war..

What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national strengt….

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind..

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

Persecution always says, 'I know the consequences of your opinion better than you know them yourselves.' But the language of toleration was always am….

No human government has a right to enquire into private opinions, to presume that it knows them, or to act on that presumption. Men are the best judg….

Any thing that proves that it is not in the power of Kings and Princes by their great armies to have every thing their own way is of such good exampl….

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in..

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 almo….

a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen..

Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right..

The worst of revolutions is a restoration..

All political power is a trust..

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust..

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..

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things..

The question now was...whether that beautiful fabric [the English constitution]...was to be maintained in that freedom...for which blood had been spi….

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them..

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy..

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree..

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 thi….