| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 30921 |
| QUOTATION: | I ... would rather be in dependance on Great Britain, properly limited, than on any nation upon earth, or than on no nation. But I am one of those too who rather than submit to the right of legislating for us assumed by the British parliament, and which late experience has shewn they will so cruelly exercise, would lend my hand to sink the whole island in the ocean. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), U.S. president. Letter, August 25, 1775, to John Randolph. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 1, p. 242, ed. Julian P. Boyd, et al. (1950). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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