William Pitt the Elder: Difference between revisions

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{{quote| ''I wage war with no man or set of men. I wish for none of their employments; nor would I co-operate with men who still persist in unretracted error, or who, instead of acting on a firm, decisive line of conduct, halt between two opinions, where there is no middle path. In God's name, if it is absolutely necessary to declare either for peace or war, and the former can not be preserved with honour, why is not the latter commenced without delay? I am not, I confess, well informed as to the resources of this kingdom, but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. But, my Lords, any state is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort, and, if we must fall, '''let us fall like men!''' ''}}

'''In Fiction'''

* In [[The Simpsons]] episode ''Homer at the Bat'', baseball player Wade Boggs and local drunk Barney Gumble debate whether Pitt the Elder or [[The Viscount Palmerston]] was the greatest Prime Minister of Great Britain, with Boggs taking Pitt the Elder's side and Barney taking Lord Palmerston's, eventually punching out Boggs.

 

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