Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity.
I know that the conquest of English America is an impossibility. You cannot, I venture to say it, you CANNOT conquer America.
I love the Americans because they love liberty...
I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: 'If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing.'
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms, never! never! never!
Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where law ends, there tyranny begins.
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