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Where law ends, there tyranny begins.

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

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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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