William Pitt the Younger - House Quotes

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Lord North will, I hope, in a very little time make room for me in Downing Street, which is the best summer Town House possible.

To his mother, two weeks after his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1782

William Pitt the Younger

I came up no backstairs... Little did I think to be ever charged in this House with being the tool and abettor of secret influence. The novelty of the imputation only renders it so much the more contemptible. This is the only answer I shall ever deign to make on the subject, and I wish the House to bear it in their mind, and judge of my future conduct by my present declaration: the integrity of my own heart, and the probity of all my public, as well as my private principles, shall always be my sources of action.

William Pitt the Younger