A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. (William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham)

A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

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