William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham, was the British statesman whose wartime leadership during the Seven Years' War secured British dominance in North America and India, and whose impassioned parliamentary speeches championed the constitutional rights of the American colonists.
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Prime Minister of Great Britain & Architect of the British Empire
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Honor the extraordinary legacy of William Pitt the Elder on November 15 with these curated quotes, philosophical reflections, and heartfelt tributes celebrating their monumental impact on Prime Minister of Great Britain & Architect of the British Empire.
“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!”
“Where law ends, tyranny begins.”
“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.”
“Trade is the lifeblood of our island nation, but liberty is the soul that animates it.”
“Let justice be done though the heavens fall.”
“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.”
“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!”
“You cannot conquer America. An entire nation armed in the cause of liberty cannot be subdued by force.”
“Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity.”
“Eloquence in Parliament is meaningless unless it is wedded to resolute national defense and civic justice.”
Prime Minister of Great Britain & Architect of the British Empire
