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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:4798
AUTHOR:William Pitt (1759–1806)
QUOTATION:Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Speech on the India Bill, November, 1783.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
See Milton, Quotation 106. [back]
 

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