To all the Patriots in and out of government slogging it out in trenches of the battle ground states and elsewhere

"Their governments are popular in a high degree: some are merely popular; in all, the popular representative is the most weighty; and this share of the people in their ordinary government never fails to inspire them to lofty sentiments, and with strong aversion from whatever tends to deprive them of their chief importance.

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The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral but laid deep in the natural constitution of things... You have winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your guns to ships in the remotest of seas; but there a power steps in and says, "So far shall you go and no farther. Who are you, that should fret and rage, and bite the chains of Nature?"

-Edmund Burke "Speech on the Conciliation with the American Colonies"

To all the Patriots in and out of government slogging it out in trenches of the battle grounds states and elsewhere

"Their governments are popular in a high degree: some are merely popular; in all, the popular representative is the most weighty; and this share of the people in their ordinary government never fails to inspire them to lofty sentiments, and with strong aversion from whatever tends to deprive them of their chief importance.

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The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral but laid deep in the natural constitution of things... You have winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your guns to ships in the remotest of seas; but there a power steps in and says, "So far shall you go and no farther. Who are you, that should fret and rage, and bite the chains of Nature?"

-Edmund Bruke "Speech on the Conciliation with the American Colonies"