William Pitt Quotes

Where laws end, tyranny begins. ~ William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

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 winds may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter; but the king of England cannot enter. ~ William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor. ~ J. Christopher Herold

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense? ~ William Pitt

I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies. ~ William Pitt

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! ~ William Pitt

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart. ~ William Pitt

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. ~ William Pitt

In 1784, the new prime minister, William Pitt the Younger, reduced the tea tax from 119 percent to 12.5 percent. Cheap tea was then available to the masses, though elitists decried tea's ill effects on "persons of an inferior rank." Women neglected "the affairs of their families" for afternoon tea sipping. ~ Maureen Stanton

Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land. ~ William Pitt

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. ~ William Pitt

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages. ~ William Pitt

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance. ~ William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

I know that I can save this country and that no one else can. ~ William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with? ~ William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human rights. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. ~ William Pitt The Younger

No man, ever indulged more freely or happily in that playful facetiousness which gratifies all without wounding any. ~ William Wilberforce

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power. ~ William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences. ~ William Ralph Inge

Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life. ~ William Cowper

An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself. ~ William Hazlitt

The means have murdered the end. ~ William James

The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth. ~ William J. Clinton

Most are interested in the philosophical only to the extent of finding out what the accepted view is in order that they may accept it and get on to the practical matters. ~ William H. Whyte

He was like a kid who'd grown up beside an ocean, taking it as much for granted as he took the sky, but knowing nothing of currents, shipping routes, or the ins and outs of weather. He'd used decks in school, toys that shuttled you through the infinite reaches of that space that wasn't space, mankind's unthinkably complex consensual hallucination, the matrix, cyberspace, where the great corporate hotcores burned like neon novas, data so dense you suffered sensory overload if you tried to apprehend more than the merest outline. ~ William Gibson

they knew also that the Communist underground was directed from Moscow and served chiefly as an espionage source for the Russians.* ~ William L. Shirer

Upon the King! Let us our lives, our souls,
Our debts, our careful wives,
Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!
We must bear all. O hard condition,
Twin-born with greatness, subject to the breath
Of every fool, whose sense no more can feel
But his own wringing! What infinite heart's ease
Must kings neglect that private men enjoy!
And what have kings that privates have not too,
Save ceremony- save general ceremony?
And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony?
What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more
Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
What are thy rents? What are thy comings-in?
O Ceremony, show me but thy worth!
What is thy soul of adoration?
Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,
Creating awe and fear in other men?
Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd
Than they in fearing.
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
But poison'd flattery? O, be sick, great greatness,
And bid thy ceremony give thee cure!
Thinks thou the fiery fever will go out
With titles blown from adulation?
Will it give place to flexure and low bending?
Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee,
Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream,
That play'st so subtly with a king's repose.
I am a king that find thee; and I know
'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball,
The sword, the ~ William Shakespeare

Launching Collins in the U.S. fulfills the original vision of the 1989 union of Harper & Row and William Collins. Publishing has clarified the many benefits of working as a global company. I believe that a true 21st century publisher is a global publisher. Harper Collins is well on its way. ~ David D. Friedman

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences ~ William James

The most recent gentleman has proven to be far more resilient and a great deal more helpful. He remains with me in a . . . different capacity."

"What capacity?"

Jackaby's step faltered, and he turned his head away slightly. His mumbled reply was nearly lost to the wind. "He is temporarily waterfowl. ~ William Ritter

But if you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses. ~ William H. McRaven

See you now your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth; and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out. ~ William Shakespeare

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. ~ William S. Burroughs

White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that. ~ William Kristol

'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was. ~ Michael Pitt

The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at. ~ William C. Bryant

So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer. ~ John William Draper

You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action. ~ William James

For where'er the sun does shine,
And where'er the rain does fall,
Babe can never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall. ~ William Blake

The best aphorisms are ... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs. ~ William Rounseville Alger

The more a man writes, the more he can write. ~ William Hazlitt

A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land. ~ William J.H. Boetcker

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome. ~ Charles William Eliot

The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord!
O, wither'd is the garland of the war,
The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls
Are level now with men; the odds is gone,
And there is nothing left remarkable
Beneath the visiting moon. ~ William Shakespeare

I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both. ~ William Mapother

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. ~ William Godwin

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so. ~ William Targ

Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues
That live among the clouds, and flush the air,
Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews. ~ William C. Bryant

Have I thought long to see this morning's face,
And doth it give me such a sight as this? ~ William Shakespeare

Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent. ~ William Dunbar

The course of true love never did run smooth. ~ William Shakespeare

Lucas knows, yeah. The last seven, eight years, there's been funny stuff out there, out on the console cowboy circuit. The new jockeys, they make deals with things, don't they, Lucas? Yeah, you bet I know; they still need the hard and the soft, and they still gotta be faster than snakes on ice, but all of 'em, all the ones who really know how to cut it, they got allies, don't they, Lucas? ~ William Gibson

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. ~ Douglas William Jerrold

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world. ~ William Dean Howells

Maidens hearts are always soft:Would that men's were truer! ~ William C. Bryant