WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:52:59 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Pitt, William the Younger – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Pitt, William the Younger -- Speech (1793-11-18), House of Commons, London https://wist.info/pitt-william/3164/ https://wist.info/pitt-william/3164/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=3164 It is true, the bill is said to be founded on necessity; but what is this? Is it not necessity, which has always been the plea of every illegal exertion of power, or exercise of oppression? Is not necessity the pretence of every usurpation? Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Pitt - Necessity ... the argument of tyrants, the creed of slaves


William Pitt (1759-1806) British Prime Minister (1804-06) [William Pitt the Younger]
Speech (1793-11-18), House of Commons, London
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