Guy Fawkes [gaɪ fɔːks] war ein katholischer Offizier des Königreichs England, der am 5. November 1605 in London ein Sprengstoff-Attentat auf dessen König Jakob I. und das englische Parlament versuchte.
Im Gedenken an das Scheitern des sogenannten Gunpowder Plot wird alljährlich vielerorts in England die Bonfire Night mit traditionellen Feuerwerken und Fackelzügen veranstaltet.
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“… to blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains.”
Remark as quoted in "Gunpowder Treason and Plot" (1976) by Cyril Northcote Parkinson. It was said in response to one of the lords of the King's Privy Chamber, who had asked what Fawkes intended to do with such a large amount of gunpowder.
“A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.”
Remark (6 November 1605) as quoted in The Dictionary of National Biography Vol. 6 (1917); He is here invoking a version of a famous statement of Hippocrates, also translated as "Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
