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.


in the House of Lords, October 1782


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

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

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

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