 ... and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than...  Speech on Conciliation with America - Page 19by Edmund Burke - 1897 - 152 pagesFull view - About this book
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