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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

William Pitt 1759-1806 John Bartlett

 
1
    Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 1
          Speech on the India Bill, November, 1783.
2
    Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
That shared its shelter perish in its fall.
          The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. No. xxxvi.
 
Note 1.
See Milton, Quotation 106. [back]