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Roll up that map; it will not be wanted these ten years.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

My Lord, I am sure I can save this country, and no one else can.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

We have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Yes, I know I am young and inexperienced, but it is a fault I am remedying every day.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

While we had France for an enemy, Germany was the scene to employ and baffle her arms.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

I must now address a few words to the Solicitor; they shall be few, but they shall be daggers.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Any state is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort; and if we must fall, let us fall like men.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

I love the Americans because they love liberty, and I love them for the noble efforts they made in the last war.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

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.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

It must cut up Liberty by the root and poison the Fountain of Publick Security; and who that has an English heart can ever be weary of asserting Liberty?

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I would never lay down my arms—never, never, never! You cannot conquer America.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham