William Pitt

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.

I invoke the genius of the constitution.

Necessity is the excuse for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of the tyrant and the creed of the slave.

Where law ends tyranny begins.

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! You cannot conquer America.