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"Arbitrary taxation is plunder authorized by law."
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Jonathan Shipley
Jonathan Shipley was a clergyman who held offices in the Church of England, who became Bishop of Llandaff from January to September 1769 and Bishop of St Asaph from September 1769 until his death.
"Arbitrary taxation is plunder authorized by law."
"The people are certainly the best judges whether they are well governed; and the Crown can have no rights inconsistent with the happiness of the people."
"The idea of governing provinces and colonies by force is visionary and chimerical. The experiment has often been tried, and it has never succeeded. It ends infallibly in the ruin of one country or the other."
"I look upon North America as the only great nursery of freemen left on the face of the earth."
"It has always been a most arduous task to govern distant provinces, with even a tolerable appearance of justice."