“Pitt complained that we lay inactive, while the French pushed on their conquests.”

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Remarks to the Council (14 July 1761), quoted in Peter D. Brown and Karl W. Schweizer (eds.), The Devonshire Diary. William Cavendish, Fourth Duke of Devonshire. Memoranda on State Affairs. 1759–1762 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1982), p. 101
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