Here it is reason and judgment, not declamation; lucidity, not passion; that produces the effects of eloquence.

No choler mars the page; no purple patch distracts our minds from the penetrating force of argument; no commonplace is dressed up into a vague sublimity.

The cause of freedom is made to wear its own proper robe of equity, self-control, and reasonableness.
Not one, but all those great idols of the political market-place whose worship and service has cost the race so dear, are discovered and shown to be the foolish uncouth stocks and stones that they are.

Fox once urged members of Parliament to peruse the speech on Conciliation again and again, to study it, to imprint it on their minds, to impress it on their hearts.

But Fox only referred to the lesson which he thought to be contained in it, that representation is the sovereign remedy for every evil.