Quote#Wisdom
With all his faults we shall want Mr Pitt, if such a complicated,…
Quote byThomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne · 1693–1768
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Lord Hardwicke (15 November 1761), quoted in Philip C. Yorke, The Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Vol. III (1913), pp. 338-339.
English (original)
With all his faults we shall want Mr Pitt, if such a complicated, such an extensive war is to be carried on. I know nobody who can plan or push the execution of any plan agreed upon in the manner Mr Pitt did.
— Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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