William Pitt the Younger Quotes
1759–1806 England
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Also known as: Pitt the Younger, Pitt, William, the Younger, Willaim Pitt, the Younger
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
That shared its shelter perish in its fall.
It is with eloquence as with a flame; it requires fuel to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns.
I think I could eat one of Bellamy's mutton pies.
I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any single man. England has saved herself by her exertions, and will, as I trust, save Europe by her example.
I do not wish...to call myself any Thing but an Independent Whig. Which in words is hardly a distinction, as every one alike pretends to it.
We will not leave the monster to prowl the world unopposed, He must cease to annoy the abode of peaceful men. If he retire into the cell, whether of solitude or repentance, thither we will not pursue him; but we cannot leave him on the throne of power.
Oh my country! How I love my country!
What I have now offered is meant merely for the sake of my country, for the simple question is: will you change your Ministers and keep the Empire, or keep your Ministers and lose the Kingdom?
The all-searching eye of the French revolution looks to every part of Europe, and every quarter of the world, in which can be found an object either of acquisition or plunder. Nothing is too great for the temerity of its ambition, nothing too small or insignificant for the grasp of its rapacity.
You may take from me, Sir, the privileges and emoluments of place, but you cannot, and you shall not, take from me those habitual and warm regards for the prosperity of Great Britain which constitute the honour, the happiness, the pride of my life, and which, I trust, death alone can extinguish.
Roll up that map; it will not be wanted these ten years.
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