To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.


Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq., on Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22, 1775 (ed. 1775)


To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.