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• Where law ends, tyranny begins. -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Case of Wilkes, Speech, Jan.
  9, 1770...
• Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
  -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Speech, Hansard (House of Lords) 9 January 1770, col....
• Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.
  -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Letter to the Earl of Shelburne, Sept. 29, 1770...
• Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.
  -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Speech, Jan. 14, 1766...
• We have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy.
  -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Prior's Life of Burke (1790)...
• The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown.
  It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through i...
• 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!
  ever! never! -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Speech, Nov. 18, 1777...
• Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 235...
• There is a higher law than the Constitution. -- William H.
  Seward (1801-1872) -- Speech, March 11, 1850...