More from William, 1st Earl of Chatham Pitt

  1. The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither a…
  2. While we had France for an enemy, Germany was the scene to employ and baffle her arms.
  3. It must cut up Liberty by the root and poison the Fountain of Publick Security; and who that has an English heart can ever be weary of asse…
  4. We retain nothing, although we have conquered everything...France is chiefly, if not solely, to be dreaded by us in the light of a maritime…
  5. When Trade is at stake it is your last Retrenchment; you must defend it, or perish.
  6. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slave…
  7. Sir, Spain knows the consequence of a war in America; whoever gains, it must prove fatal to her.
  8. Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity.

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