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William Pitt. 1759-1806

Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.[453:2]

Speech on the India Bill, November, 1783.

Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all

That shared its shelter perish in its fall.

The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. No. xxxvi.