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Arguing against American liberty forces Britain to undermine its own freedom
Drawn from what Edmund Burke said
SubjectAmerica
What Edmund Burke actually said
- Edmund Burke Irish-born British statesman and political philosopher (1729 to 1797)
To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself; and we never seem to gain a paltry advantage over them in debate without attacking some of those principles, or deriding some of those feelings, for which our ancestors have shed their blood.
Where this was said
↗Speech on Conciliation with America (22 March 1775)gutenberg.org
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