William Pitt the Younger

"Where law ends, tyranny begins."

~William Pitt the Younger~

William Pitt the Younger who lived from 1759-1806 is an interesting man and the youngest-ever Prime Minister of England, at the age of twenty-four. He is the often overlooked life long friend of William Wilberforce whom he befriended while attending Cambridge.

He was educated at home until he was fourteen when he went to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge and graduated at the age of seventeen and was called to the Bar in 1780. At Pembroke Hall he became ill and his doctors prescribed a bottle of port wine each day which caused him to become an alcoholic and created in him a taste for drink that would eventually kill him at the age of forty-seven.

Here are some of our favorite quotes by him . . .


"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." (In a speech on November 18, 1783)


“Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.”