Spoken in the great hall of government on the eve of a distant war:
Men are to be brought to this black business hoodwinked. They are to be drawn in by degrees, until they cannot retreat. We are breaking through all those sacred maxims of our forefathers, and giving the alarm to every wise man on the continent of America that all his rights depend on the will of men whose corruptions are notorious, who regard him as an enemy and who have no interest in his prosperity.
George Johnstone, House of Commons, October 1775
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