14 ordspråk av William Pitt the elder
William Pitt the elder
William Pitt the elder föddes den
15 November 1708 och dog den 5 November
1778 - 1st Earl of Chatham, Viscount Pitt of Burton-Pynsent , byname The Great Commoner.
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Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
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I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
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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!
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In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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My Lord, I'm sure I am able to save this country, and no one else can.
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So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain,namely, that nothing is certain. . .
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The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
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There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.
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villa park is the home of gods
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Where laws end, tyranny begins.
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