"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense."
- J. Christopher Herold
"His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fo..."
"The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the Established Order; the liberal Tories and the radical Whigs fought him as the Betrayer of the Revol..."