“Great. Abducted by aliens. She’d never live this one down. She wondered if they would dissect her. Maybe grab a steak of the tender parts and cook her up. Any sex stuff was too weird and horrible to think about, though it had been awhile. What the hell did she know? Brad Pitt. Surely, he wasn’t entirely human. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad.””
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.””
“No man, ever indulged more freely or happily in that playful facetiousness which gratifies all without wounding any.””
“I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.””
“There is a corner in every human heart made to be filled with hatred, fear, and violence. It is our common curse.””
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human rights. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.””
“His words were echoed in the House of Lords by the former Prime Minister. William Pitt, Lord Chatham, came from a dynasty whose fortunes were made in India: his father, ‘Diamond Pitt’, brought back from his governorship of Madras the fortune that had made possible Pitt’s career. Pitt did not, however, like to be reminded of this, and now raised the alarm that the EIC was bringing its corrupt practices back from India and into the very benches of the Mother of Parliaments. ‘The riches of Asia have been poured in upon us,’ he declared at the despatch box, ‘and have brought with them not only Asiatic luxury, but, I fear, Asiatic principles of government. Without connections, without any natural interest in the soil, the importers of foreign gold have forced their way into Parliament by such a torrent of private corruptions as no private hereditary fortune could resist.’31””
William Pitt was a prominent British statesman who served as Prime Minister during a critical period in British history. Known for his leadership during the Napoleonic Wars, Pitt's tenure was marked b...
“wnlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know: that where law ends, tyranny begins.””
“Michael Moran was born about 1794 off Black Pitts, in the Liberties of Dublin, in Faddle Alley. A fortnight after birth he went stone blind from illness, and became thereby a blessing to his parents, who were soon able to send him to rhyme and beg at street corners and at the bridges over the Liffey. They may well have wished that their quiver were full of such as he, for, free from the interruption of sight, his mind became a perfect echoing chamber, where every movement of the day and every change of public passion whispered itself into rhyme or quaint saying.””
“Before you have your dreams, your dreams have you, and every day pushes a night before it while the wilderness follows.””
“There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.””