More from William, 1st Earl of Chatham Pitt

  1. 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…
  2. The distinction between legislation and taxation is essential to liberty.
  3. 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…
  4. There are many things a parliament cannot do. It cannot make itself executive, nor dispose of offices which belong to the crown. It cannot …
  5. While we had France for an enemy, Germany was the scene to employ and baffle her arms.
  6. 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.
  7. My Lord, I am sure I can save this country, and no one else can.
  8. There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

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