Quote #6
We owe our present happiness and prosperity, which has never been equalled in the annals of mankind, to a mixture of monarchical government.
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- You may take from me, Sir, the privileges and emoluments of place, but you cannot, and you shall not, take from me those habitual and warm …
- Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter perish in its fall.
- I will repeat then, Sir, that it is not this treaty, it is the Earl of Shelburne alone whom the movers of this question are desirous to wou…
- Most accursed, wicked, barbarous, cruel, unnatural, unjust and diabolical.