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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that ...

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If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I neve...

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

If I were an American as I am an Englishman while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never...

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Where law ends there tyranny begins.

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

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William Pitt (ship-builder)

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer

Born: 1759-05-28

Died: 1806-01-23

William Pitt (died 1840, in Malta) was an English ship-builder who was the Master Attendant at Jamaica Dockyard, and later of Malta. His amusing poem of "The Sailor's Consolation" is in many collections credited to Charles Dibdin.More