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Quote from William Pitt,


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


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William Pitt (more quotes by William Pitt or books by/about William Pitt)


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

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Speech, House of Commons, 18 November 1783
William Pitt the Elder, in a speech on the India Bill (18 November 1783), reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 550-51; also in Famous Sayings and Their Authors (1906) by Edward Latham, p. 44

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Executive Orders, Freedom, Globalism, Government, Liberty, NWO, Security, Slavery, Socialism, Terrorism, Tyranny, UN, Usurpation, War

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