Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt the Younger

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William Pitt the Younger

British prime minister (1759-1806). At 24 the youngest ever, he led Britain through the Napoleonic Wars, reformed finance, introduced income tax (1798), and engineered the 1800 Act of Union. Died unmarried at 46.

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