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A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill! Hark! don't yet hear it roar now? Lord help 'em, how I pities them Unhappy folks on shore how! - [Navigation] Allay the ferment prevailing in America by removing the obnoxious hostile cause--obnoxious and unserviceable--for their merit can only be in action. "Non dimicare et vincare." - in a speech referring to the American colonies [Peace] Eloquence is in the assembly, not in the speaker. - [Eloquence] England is not to be saved by any single man. - [England] If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,--never! never! never! - in a speech [Patriotism : War] Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. - [Necessity] Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. - referring to the case of John Wilkes [Power] We have a Calvanistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminiam clergy. - see "Prior's Life of Burke", ch. X (1790) [Religion] The atrocious crime of being a young man. - Boswell's Life of Johnson, to Walpole [Youth] Where law ends, there tyranny begins. - Case of Wilkes--Speech (last line) [Law : Tyranny] now as to politeness . . . I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles. - Correspondence (I, 79) [Manners] Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations. - Letter to the Earl of Shelburne [Rights] Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. - Speech [Confidence] Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. - Speech on America [Government] The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter,--the rain may enter,--but the Kind of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - Speech on the Excise Bill [Home] Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power. - Speech to Recall Troops from Boston [Peace] Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - Speeches--The India Bill [Necessity] The press is like the air, a chartered libertine. - To Lord Grenville [Journalism]
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