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.
Category: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778) was a British statesman of the Whig group who led the government of Great Britain twice in the middle of the 18th century.
There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.
I love the Americans because they love liberty, and I love them for the noble efforts they made in the last war.
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! never! never!
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity.