Гай Фокс, также Гви́до Фокс — английский дворянин-католик, родился в Йорке, самый знаменитый участник Порохового заговора против английского и шотландского короля Якова I в 1605 году. В 2002 году в опросе Би-би-си «100 величайших британцев» Фокс занял тридцатое место. Wikipedia
“… 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."
