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Allay the ferment prevailing in America by removing the obnoxious hostile cause—obnoxious and unserviceable—for their merit can only be in action. "Non dimicare et vincare."

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

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Peace

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

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

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

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

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

Prior's Life of Burke (1790)

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