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(1708-1778) 1st Earl of Chatham, English Statesman, Orator

The song of the tyrant

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 16, 2016September 10, 2021Format QuoteCategories demagoguesTags William Pitt

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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