"If he had been suffered to end the war which he so gloriously carried on, we should not have had the wars we have had since."

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PrisonersBritish Ambassadors to the NetherlandsMilitary leaders from EnglandBritish Ambassadors to FranceBritish Ambassadors to Sweden
Original Language: English

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William Pitt, speech in the House of Commons (23 November 1758), quoted in Richard Middleton, The Bells of Victory: The Pitt–Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Years' War, 1757–1762 (1985), p. 97