Quote#Homeland
What I have now offered is meant merely for the sake of my country,…
Quote byWilliam Pitt the Younger · 1759–1806
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech in the House of Commons, supporting a motion of censure on the government of Lord North (15 March 1782), quoted in William Cobbett, Parliamentary History.
English (original)
What I have now offered is meant merely for the sake of my country, for the simple question is: will you change your Ministers and keep the Empire, or keep your Ministers and lose the Kingdom?
— William Pitt the Younger
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