Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt the Younger, speech in Parliament, November 18, 1783.
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt the Younger, speech in Parliament, November 18, 1783.
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No argument. Just think what the rotten boroughs gave us in terms of intelligent government. The Reform Act of 1832 was not an unalloyed benefit
No truer words have been spoken, and so succinctly