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The country will neither be united at home nor respected abroad, till the reins of government are lodged with men who have some little pretensions to common sense and common honesty.

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The sun of Great Britain will set whenever she acknowledges the independence of America…the independence of America would end in the ruin of England.

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At the opening of the session on 31 Oct. 1776, Shelburne denounced the king's speech as 'a piece of metaphysical refinement,' and the defence set up for it as:

Nothing more than a string of sophisms, no less wretched in their texture than insolent in their tenor.

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Lord Shelburne

Lord Shelburne

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Born: May 2, 1737

Died: May 7, 1805 (aged 68)

Bio: William Petty, known as The Earl of Shelburne, was an Irish-born British Whig statesman who was the first Home Secretary in 1782 and then Prime Minister in 1782–83 during the final months of the American War of Independence.

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