Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and...
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“Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.”
“I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.”
“Where laws end, tyranny begins.”
Source: Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and J.H. Pringle] the executors of his son John, earl of Chatham
“The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.”
“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.”
Source: Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and J.H. Pringle] the executors of his son John, earl of Chatham
“Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.”