Charles James Fox/1782%e2%80%931784 - Constitutional Crisis

Famous quotes containing the words charles james fox, james, fox and/or crisis:

    Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
    Charles James Fox (1749–1806)

    The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business.
    —William James (1842–1910)

    Many scraps make a lot; fox furs, sewn together, make a fine robe.
    Chinese proverb.

    ... what’s been building since the 1980’s is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That’s what will last after this flurry on family values.
    Stephanie Coontz (b. 1944)