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

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

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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.

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

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

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