William Pitt Quotes

• 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!

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• You cannot conquer America.

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• Where laws end, tyranny begins.

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• I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.

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• I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.

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• It is now apparent that this great, this powerful, this formidable kingdom is considered only as a province of a despicable electorate.

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• Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

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• Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

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• The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.

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• Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

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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!

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• Don’t talk to me about a man’s being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

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• Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

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• Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

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William Pitt (14)

Birth:	28th May, 1759
Death:	23rd January, 1806
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician, Prime Minister

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