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• Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.
  -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Speech, Jan. 14, 1766...
• Where law ends, tyranny begins. -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Case of Wilkes, Speech, Jan.
  9, 1770...
• Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.
  -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Letter to the Earl of Shelburne, Sept. 29, 1770...
• 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 (1708-1778) -- Chatham Correspondence, Speech, March 2, 1770...
• Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
  -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Speech, Hansard (House of Lords) 9 January 1770, col....
• 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!
  ever! never! -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Speech, Nov. 18, 1777...
• 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 i...
• Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
  It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -- William Pitt, 1783...
• It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Prior's Life of Burke...