Quote#Freedom
The deed is done, the nail is driven, Spanish America is free; and if…
Quote byGeorge Canning · 1770–1827
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Augustus Granville Stapleton (17 December 1824), quoted in The Later American Policy of George Canning, p. 19.
English (original)
The deed is done, the nail is driven, Spanish America is free; and if we do not mismanage our affairs sadly, she is English.
— George Canning
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