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• Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
  It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -- William Pitt, 1783...
• 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...
• 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)...
• Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.
  -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Speech, Jan. 14, 1766...
• Where law ends, tyranny begins. -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Case of Wilkes, Speech, Jan.
  9, 1770...
• Every man meets his Waterloo at last. -- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) -- Speech, Nov. 1, 1859
• This hand to tyrants...this finger to Bill and Hillary!!!
• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
  It is it's natural manure. -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William S....
• 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...