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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom."
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham / Speech, Jan. 14, 1766.
Speech, Jan. 14, 1766.
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"A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself."
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham / Chatham Correspondence. Speech, March 2, 1770.
Chatham Correspondence. Speech, March 2, 1770.
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"Where law ends, tyranny begins."
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham / Case of Wilkes. Speech, Jan. 9, 1770.
Case of Wilkes. Speech, Jan. 9, 1770.
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"Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations."
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham / Letter to the Earl of Shelburne, Sept. 29, 1770.
Letter to the Earl of Shelburne, Sept. 29, 1770.
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"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,--never! never! never!"
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham / Speech, Nov. 18, 1777.
Speech, Nov. 18, 1777.
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"The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter,--but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!"
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham / Speech on the Excise Bill.
Speech on the Excise Bill.
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"We have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy."
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham / Prior's Life of Burke (1790).
Prior's Life of Burke (1790).
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"Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
William Pitt / Speech on the India Bill, November, 1783.
Speech on the India Bill, November, 1783.
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"Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter perish in its fall."
William Pitt / The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. No. xxxvi.
The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. No. xxxvi.
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"A strong nor'-wester 's blowing, Bill! Hark! don't ye hear it roar now? Lord help 'em, how I pities them Unhappy folks on shore now!"
William Pitt / The Sailor's Consolation.
The Sailor's Consolation.
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"My eyes! what tiles and chimney-pots About their heads are flying!"
William Pitt / The Sailor's Consolation.
The Sailor's Consolation.
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