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William Pitt the elder Quotes
«In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.»
Author: William Pitt the elder
(Statesman)
«The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!»
Author: William Pitt the elder
(Statesman)
«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.»
Author: William Pitt the elder
(Statesman)
«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!»
Author: William Pitt the elder
(Statesman)
«My Lord, I'm sure I am able to save this country, and no one else can.»
Author: William Pitt the elder
(Statesman)
«The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.»
Author: William Pitt the elder
(Statesman)
«Where laws end, tyranny begins.»
Author: William Pitt the elder
(Statesman)
«Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?»
Author: William Pitt the elder
(Statesman)
«villa park is the home of gods»
Author: William Pitt the elder
(Statesman)
«There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.»
Author: William Pitt the elder
(Statesman)