William Pitt Quotes
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!
Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.
Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.
The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.
Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.
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!
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.
In the bad old days there were three easy ways of losing money - racing being the quickest women the pleasantest and farming the most certain.
I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.