William Pitt the Younger

"Oh my country! How I love my country!"

"You may take from me, Sir, the privileges and emoluments of place, but you cannot, and you shall not, take from me those habitual and warm regards for the prosperity of Great Britain which constitute …"

"We must not count with certainty on a continuance of our present prosperity during such an interval ; but unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when, from the situation …"

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

"The amount of our danger, therefore, it would be impolitic to conceal from the people. It was the first duty of ministers to make it known, and after doing so, it should have been their study to provi…"

"Most accursed, wicked, barbarous, cruel, unnatural, unjust and diabolical."

"I will repeat then, Sir, that it is not this treaty, it is the Earl of Shelburne alone whom the movers of this question are desirous to wound. This is the object which has raised this storm of faction…"

"...we have become rich in a variety of acquirements, favoured above measure in the gifts of Providence, unrivalled in commerce, pre-eminent in arts, foremost in the pursuits of philosophy and science,…"