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• Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.
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• My eyes! what tiles and chimney-pots About their heads are flying!
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• Where law ends, tyranny begins. -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Case of Wilkes, Speech, Jan.
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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...
• Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense
  everyone can talk sense- can he talk nonsense? -- William Pitt the Elde...
• Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom.
  It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves....
• Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter perish in its fall.
  -- William Pitt (1759-1806) -- The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, No. xxxvi...
• 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...