William Pitt

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.

A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

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

Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter perish in its fall.

A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill, Hark! Don't ye hear it roar, now? Lord help 'em, how I pities all Unhappy folks on shore now!

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

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom, youth is the season of credulity.

We have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Armenian clergy.

The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman [Walpole] has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.