William Pitt the Younger Quote

The amount of our danger, therefore, it would be impolitic to conceal from the people. It was the first duty of ministers to make it known, and after doing so, it should have been their study to provide against it, and to point out the means to the country by which it might be averted.

"The War Speeches of William Pitt", Oxford University Press, 1915, p. 314