Edmund Burke — "I would rather sleep in the same bed with a toad than with a Frenchman."
I would rather sleep in the same bed with a toad than with a Frenchman.
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Attributed, a reflection of his strong anti-French revolutionary sentiment, though the exact wording is debated and may be a popularized version.
Date: c. 1790s
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