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Speech to House of Commons (18 Nov 1793) - Pitt, William the Younger | WIST Quotations
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…